Growing up as a Roman Catholic, we are lived up by the laws of the church we go to, that were

produced by 'God' himself, we are even introduced to religious ceremonies that we don't know
what is for, sacraments that we 'need' in order to go to heaven. And as we grow older, we are
starting to realize and ask ourselves, "are these laws and ceremonies are what would God left for
us and enable us to meet him in 'heaven'? According to the history by the Roman Catholic, God
gave Moses a list of 'commandments' that we need to obey as we are growing up, these
commandments will help us in attaining the fulfillment of life and will be able to go in heaven.
These 'commandments' are what the roman catholics have been following because of fear and
because they wanted to go in heaven. Innocently, they followed the commandments and
according to some criticisms, there are religious roman catholic authorities who changed some of
the lines of the verses of the commandments and took for granted the innocence of many.
You will find below the table that shows the Ten Commandments as personally spoken and
written by God using the King James translation Exodus 20:2-17 and the Ten Commandments as
changed by the Roman Catholic Church on Catechism of the Catholic Church. The Roman
Catholic Church believes that their authority stands above the Word of God and that they can
change God's times and laws and God will accept their changes. You should note that they
actually deleted out the second Commandment and also changed the Biblical fourth
Commandment from God's Sabbath to Sunday. They also split the tenth Commandment into two
to get back to Ten Commandments. As a result, the Roman Catholic version of the Ten
Commandment is always one ahead of the King James in the Decalogue until you get to the tenth
Commandment which they break into two and make it the ninth and tenth Commandments.

The Catholic Encyclopedia Volume 4, p. 152 confirms the deletion of the second Commandment

and the change of the fourth commandment. They do not try to hide it, but are actually proud of
it! "The church, after changing the day of rest from the Jewish Sabbath of the seventh day of the
week to the first, made the third commandment refer to Sunday as the day to be kept holy as the
Lord's Day."
The Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine (1997) pg 50,51,
([Link]
THE THIRD COMMANDMENT
Q. What is the Third Commandment?
A. The Third Commandment is: Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.
Q. Which is the Sabbath day?
A. Saturday is the Sabbath day.
Q. Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
A. We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the
solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.
Q. Why did the Catholic Church substitute Sunday for Saturday.
A. The Church substituted Sunday for Saturday, because Christ rose from the dead on a Sunday,
and the Holy Ghost descended upon the Apostles on a Sunday.
Q. By what authority did the Church substitute Sunday for Saturday?
A. The Church substituted Sunday for Saturday by the plenitude of that divine power which
Jesus Christ bestowed upon her.
Q. What does the Third Commandment command?
A. The Third Commandment commands us to sanctify Sunday as the Lord's Day.
Q. What does the Third Commandment forbid?
A. The Third Commandment forbids (1) The omission of prayer and divine worship; (2) All
unnecessary servile work; (3) Whatever hinders the keeping of the Lord's Day holy.
Q. Is the desecration of the Lord's Day a grievous matter?
A. The desecration of the Lord's Day is a grievous matter in itself, it admits of a light matter.

In an attempt to find the most original Decalogue between Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5,
scholars have found that both decalogues are a mixture of older and newer traditions, as each
book was being written in an earlier millennium. While some may argue that an earlier
Decalogue should have primacy, others will argue, more correctly it seems to me, that the latest
tradition encoded in sacred Scripture has primacy as the further development in understanding
that God intended. In the commandment regarding keeping the Sabbath, the rationale for keeping
it provided by Deuteronomy is seen by scholars to be more ancient than the one provided by
Exodus, though both rationales are important

Since both Exodus and Deuteronomy open in basic agreement on observing or remembering to
keep holy the Sabbath, there is little controversy today between denominations on this
commandment’s meaning that a special day of the week is to be kept holy. However,
the Catechism emphasizes the Christian tradition that the special day to be kept holy is called the
Lord’s Day which is Sunday, the day of Jesus’ resurrection. The early delineation of Sunday as
the Lord’s Day is seen already in Revelation 1:10.

In contrast, the Decalogue’s presentation in Exodus shows an earlier cultural mindset in putting
the wife and household o my objects as common possessions together under one command
against covetousness in (Ex. 20:17). Moses, in separating the wife from household objects with a
separate word for coveting in Deuteronomy 5:21, creates a new dignity for marriage, monogamy,
and women that corresponds to the understanding reflected in the New Testament and in
subsequent Church teaching (especially the writings of Pope John Paul II). Thus it seems to me
the Christian tradition was correct in making the end of the Decalogue two separate
commandments by following Deuteronomy 5.

Much ink has been spilled regarding the early verses of the Decalogue about monotheism and
images. The command of monotheism produces little disagreement. But is there a separate
commandment regarding images, or are the verses regarding images meant as an example of the
practice of monotheism and therefore intimately part of the first commandment? Again our
answer depends on which text we choose, Exodus or Deuteronomy, for there are syntax
differences. Exodus 20:3 (“You shall have no other gods before me”) is a closed sentence and
could be a complete commandment.

In Deuteronomy 5:7, the Hebrew construction is such that the wording is only the first part of
what follows in the commandment, that no idol representing the deity be carved nor placed
before the Lord God nor any such carved image be worshiped.

Thus the semantics of Exodus 20 can look like two commandments: prohibition of polytheism
and prohibition of making carved images. But the syntax of Deuteronomy 5:7–11 shows one
commandment, prohibition of idolatry (especially involving carved images that represent other
gods or Yahweh). So Catholics are justified after Augustine (following Deuteronomy) in seeing a
single commandment in the opening verses of the Decalogue. This, of course, affects the whole
counting of the commandments up through the tenth commandment.
Whose list of commandments shall prevail? We do not know the future but it seems that we will
continue to see these two versions in the mixed religious scene of American life. It is worthwhile
to note that the Church itself is not dogmatic about the numbering system one uses. But a good
apology for the list Catholics have traditionally memorized, representing the most ancient of
Christian traditions, is handy to have in the advancement of the moral truth for all humanity that
these commandments
With these in mind, I’ve questioned myself as [Link] reading the bible, why are there 2 versions
of the Ten Commandments in the book of Torah, namely the books of Exodus and
Deutoronomy? According to [Link], Unlike the first four books of the Pentateuch, the Book
of Deuteronomy is, for the most part, the Word of God given in the language and style of Moses.
Five weeks before his death, Moses assembled the people of Israel in Moab and gave them a
parting speech, which formed the core of this book. One of the first things Moses did was
reiterate the Ten Commandments, along with other tenets of Judaism.

In a strange twist, there are some significant differences between the original text in Exodus and
the repeat recorded in Deuteronomy. It should be stressed that this isn't just an issue of
semantics. Some of these differences have practical ramifications. For example, the
commandment to “remember” the Shabbat (Exodus) tells us to verbally sanctify the Shabbat
through reciting kiddush, etc., while the commandment to “keep” the Shabbat (Deuteronomy) is
about refraining from doing forbidden work.

Another example is that in the last commandment, the Exodus version only warns not to “covet”
something that belongs to someone else. Conversely, the Deuteronomy version seems to have a
new commandment: "You shall not desire." The difference is substantial. "You shall not covet"
tells us not to act toward obtaining the object of our desire. "You shall not desire," on the other
hand, means that we may not even actively think about it. 

With my first question for myself was answered, I asked myself, didn’t my Aunt working for
church told me that Moses was repeating what God had said 40 years earlier then why are there
difference between the 2 books? According to one tradition in the Midrash, the two versions
correspond to the two sets of Tablets. The version in Exodus was what was written on the first
set of Tablets, which were ultimately broken after the Jews sinned with the Golden Calf. The
Deuteronomy repeat records what was written on the second Tablets that God gave Moses.
However, on a literal level, it seems that the verses in both Exodus and Deuteronomy recount
what God said at Sinai. ([Link])

Rabbi Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz offers a novel explanation based on the Midrashic tradition

that before the giving of the Torah, God first offered the Torah to all the nations of the world, but
they rejected it. Thus, the version in Exodus is what the Torah would have looked like had all the
nations wished to accept it, and the version in Deuteronomy is for the Jews alone. Thus, the first
version only speaks about sanctifying the Shabbat, but not about the prohibitions. This also
explains why the creation of the world is given as the reason for Shabbat in the first version, but
the Exodus (a uniquely Jewish experience) is recorded in the second version, in Deuteronomy.
Also, since the first version is more universal, it only prohibits acting toward obtaining another’s
belongings, but doesn’t require the higher standard of not even desiring it, as does the
Deuteronomy version.