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5. No law enforces this commandment. It is doubtful that it could be enforced.

5. No law enforces this commandment. It is doubtful that it could be enforced.

6. This commandment is very clearly enforced by US law, but in some US-states dead penalty is not prohibited. However, as this prohibition has arisen in many diverse religions and legal system, it is highly probable it would have been included regardless of its mention in the ten commandments.

6. This commandment is very clearly enforced by US law, but in some US-states the death penalty is not prohibited. However, as this prohibition has arisen in many diverse religions and legal system, it is highly probable it would have been included regardless of its mention in the ten commandments.

7. Adultery is not a criminal offense, but it will influence civil divorce proceedings and affect the distribution of assets.

7. Adultery is not a criminal offense, but it will influence civil divorce proceedings and affect the distribution of assets.  Jesus clarified the definition of adultery, for instance in Matthew 8:27-32, to include remarriage after divorce in most cases.  Until recently, most states other than Nevada outlawed divorce for this reason.  Today most states and many Christian denominations define adultery in a narrow way to allow remarriage after divorce, contrary to Jesus' law.  Many Christians believe that this commandment, which forbids adultery ("voluntary sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife or by a married woman with another than her husband" [Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition, Unabridged, 1934]), also forbids fornication ("illicit sexual intercourse on the part of an unmarried person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery" [op. cit.]).

8. As with 6.

8. As with 6.