Kebra Nagast

Concerning the Ten Commandments the Lord thy God, for the Lord will not hold innocent the man who sweareth a false oath in His Name. "And observe the day of the Sabbath to sanctify it, even as the Lord thy God commanded. Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day, the Sabbath of the Lord thy God, thou shalt do no work at all, neither thyself, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy servant, nor thine ass, nor any beast, nor the stranger For in six days God made the that abideth with thee. heavens and the earth, and the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day, and because of this God blessed the seventh day and declared it free [from work]. " Honour thy father and thy mother so that may be good to thee the many days that thou shalt find in the land which the Lord thy God hath given thee. " Thou shalt not go with the wife of [another] man. " Thou shalt not slay a life. " Thou shalt not commit fornication. Thou shalt not steal. " Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. " Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor nor his land, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his cattle, nor his ass, nor any of the beasts that thy neighbour hath acquired." This is the word which God hath spoken, His Law and His Ordinance. And those who sin He rebuketh, so that they may not be confirmed in error, and may restrain themselves from the pollution wherewith God is not pleased. And this is the thing with which God is not pleased, and it is right that men should abstain his house, from it. " No man shall uncover the shame of one with whom he hath kinship for I am the Lord your God. The shame of thy father and mother thou shalt not uncover, for it is thy mother. Thou shalt not uncover the shame ; 59