Just about everyone, at least in the West, has heard of "The Ten Commandments", and most can even recite at least a couple of them.

In order to better understand western thought and culture, and certainly areas like the "Bible Belt" in the deep American South, it's important to at least be familiar with them.

At alot of laws on both sides of the Atlantic were at some point in history, based on these "commandments".

Here they are, unabridged, and read from the Authorized Version English Bible of 1611.