Definition of Commandment

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Commandment

An order or injunction given by authority; a command; a charge; a precept; a mandate.

One of the ten laws or precepts given by God to the Israelites at Mount Sinai.

The act of commanding; exercise of authority.

The offense of commanding or inducing another to violate the law.

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Commandment Quotations

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.
Thomas Paine

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
Edith Stein

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.
Bertolt Brecht

How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?
Anne Hutchinson

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice."
Sophocles

I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.
Theodore Bikel

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.
Phyllis Schlafly

I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
Barbara Mikulski

If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.
Learned Hand

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.
Charles William Eliot

Commandment Translations

commandment in German is Gebot, Vorschrift
commandment in Hungarian is parancsolat
commandment in Spanish is mando
commandment in Swedish is bud

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