the Lord your God"; (2) (20:3 in NJPS) says, "You shall have no other gods," and says, "Nor make to yourselves molten gods"; (3) (20:7 in NJPS) says, "You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain," and says, "And you shall not swear by My name falsely"; (4) (20:8 in NJPS) says, "Remember the Sabbath day," and says, "And you shall keep My Sabbaths"; (5) (20:12 in NJPS) says, "Honor your father and your mother," and says, "You shall fear every man his mother, and his father"; (6) (20:13 in NJPS) says, "You shall not murder," and says, "Neither shall you stand idly by the blood of your neighbor"; (7) (20:13 in NJPS) says, "You shall not commit adultery," and says, "Both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death; (8) (20:13 in NJPS) says, "You shall not steal," and says, "You shall not steal"; (9) (20:13 in NJPS) says, "You shall not bear false witness," and says, "You shall not go up and down as a talebearer"; and (10) (20:14 in NJPS) says, "You shall not covet . . . anything that is your neighbor's," and says, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Rabbi Ishmael interpreted (20:2–3 in NJPS) and (5:6–7 in NJPS) to be the first of the Ten Commandments. Rabbi Ishmael taught that Scripture speaks in particular of idolatry, for says, "Because he has despised the word of the Lord." Rabbi Ishmael interpreted this to mean that an idolater despises the first word among the Ten Words or Ten Commandments in (20:2–3 in NJPS) and (5:6–7 in NJPS), "I am the Lord your God . . . . You shall have no other gods before Me." The Sifre taught that to commit idolatry is to deny the entire Torah. Tractate Avodah Zarah in the Mishnah, Tosefta, Jerusalem Talmud, and Babylonian Talmud interpreted the laws prohibiting idolatry in (20:3–6 in NJPS) and (5:7–10 in NJPS). Tractate Shabbat in the Mishnah, Tosefta, Jerusalem Talmud, and Babylonian Talmud interpreted the laws of the Sabbath in and 29; (20:8–11 in NJPS); ; ; ; ; ; ; and (5:12 in NJPS). Noting that (20:8 in NJPS) says, "Remember the Sabbath day," and (5:12 in NJPS) says, "Observe the Sabbath day," the Gemara taught that God pronounced both "Remember" and "Observe" in a single utterance, an utterance that the mouth cannot utter, nor