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Example sentences for: commandment

How can you use “commandment” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The Hebrew expression in the Sixth Commandment, lo tirtsach, is generally read: Thou shall not commit murder.
Once again, the analogy with the commandment against killing (or murder) proves instructive.
It may be often violated, but hardly anyone in our culture denies that it is a commandment.
Allow me a short digression on the commandment against killing to illustrate the phenomenon of a text that carries one meaning on its surface and a more radical meaning beneath.
The first commandment in the puzzlers' bible reads: Thou shalt not waste words.