In the New Testament, we read that Jesus summarised all of the Jewish laws into two: love God with all you’ve got, and, as part of that, love everyone. To help us understand those two commands, we can look at the previous summary of the over 600 edicts that made up Jewish law – the Ten Commandments – something that is long enough to be useful and forthright, yet brief enough to be remembered. The first four of these commandments relate to our conduct towards God...

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