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Commandments of God (The Ten Commandments)

Commandments of God (The Ten Commandments)
• The fundamental obligations of religion and morality and embodying the revealed expression of the Creator's will in relation to man's whole duty to God and to his fellow-creatures

Catholic Encyclopedia. . 2006.

  
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