Are you an iconoclast? The ten commandments consist of how many commandments?

[Boojatta]

I count nine.

Below is the King James Version, simplified a bit by me.

(Exodus 20:1 to 20:17, but numbered one to nine by me.)

1. You aren't to have any other gods before me; and you aren't to serve any gods other than me.

I think that the prohibition against "graven images" is simply part of this. That's why I count a total of nine rather than ten.

2. Don't take the name of the LORD thy God in vain.

3. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.

4. Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

5. Thou shalt not kill.

6. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

7. Thou shalt not steal

8. Thou shalt not bear false witness against anybody.

9. Thou shalt not covet.