The Ten Commandments Part 445

A man and his wife were leaving the church when the priest said to the man, "I see your wife every week, but I don't see you that often."

"Don't worry, father," said the man, "we keep the ten commandments."

"Really?" asked the priest.

"Yes we do," said the man. "She keeps six and I keep four."

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The gift of the commandments and of the Law is part of the covenant God sealed with his own. In Exodus, the revelation of the "ten words" is granted between the proposal of the covenant ande its conclusion-after the people had committed themselves to "do" all that the Lord had said, and to "obey" it. The Decalogue is never handed on without first recalling the covenant ("The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.") (Catholic Catechism Par. 2060)