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299 Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of Yahweh, thy 1A. Elohim: On it thou shalt not do any work— neither thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter; neither thy servant nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle; As also the stranger who is within thy gates. The fifth affirmative Commandment established the family as the human unit, headed by the patriarch and the matriarch: V Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be prolonged upon the land which Yahweh thy Elohim giveth thee. And then came the five No's that established the moral and social code between Man and Man rather than, as at the beginning, between Man and God: VI Thou shalt not murder. VII Thou shalt not commit adultery. VIII Thou shalt not steal IX Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor. X Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house; Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, neither his servant or maidservant, his ox, his ass, nor anything that is his. Much has been made in countless textbooks of the Laws of Hammurabi, the Babylonian king from the eighteenth cen- tury B.C, that he engraved on a stela (now in the Louvre Museum) upon which he is shown receiving the laws from the god Shamash. But that was only a listing of crimes and their punishments. A thousand years before Hammurabi Sum- erian kings established laws of social justice—you shall not take away the donkey of a widow, they decreed, or delay the wages of a day laborer (to give two examples). But never before (and perhaps not even thereafter) did just ten com- mandments state, so clearly, all of the essentials that a whole people and any human being had to be guided by! The Greatest Theophany