The X Commandments - Farmer, John

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"This tune from ''Genevan Psalter'', 1561."

⌛ Period → Renaissance ◈ Genre → Motets

♯ Key A minor

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → STTB

◆ Difficulty

Beginner

↕ Range A2 – C5

¶ Language → English

Measures 161

Texture mixed texture

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 16

CPDL # 46697

Editor Paul Cienniwa

Posted 2017-10-10

License Personal

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano

D4 – C5

Alto

G3 – G4

Tenor

G3 – F4

Bass

A2 – C4

¶Lyrics / Text

Hark Israel and what I say, give heed to understand, I am the Lord thy God that brought, thee out of Egypt land, even from the house wherein thou didst, in thraldom live a slave, none other Gods at all before, my presence shalt thou have. No manner graven image shall thou make at all to thee; nor any figure like by thee shall counterfaited be, of anything in heaven above, nor in the earth below, nor in the waters beneath the earth, to them thou shalt not bow. Nor shalt them serve: the Lord thy God, a jealous God am I, that punish parents faults unto the third and fourth degree. Upon their children that me hate, and mercy do display to thousands of such as me love, and my precepts obey. The name thou of the Lord thy God in vain shalt never use, for him that takes his name in vain the Lord will not excuse. Remember that thou holy keep the sacred sabbath day. Six days thou labor shalt, and do thy needful works alway. The se'vth day is set by the Lord thy God to rest upon; no work then shalt thou do in it, nay thou, nor yet thy son. Thy daughter, servant nor thy maid, thine ox, nor yet thine ass, nor stranger that within thy gates hath his abiding place. For in six days God heav'n and earth, and all therein did make, and after those his rest he did upon the se'vth day take. Wherefore he blest the day that he for resting did ordain, and sacred to himself alone appointed to remain. Yield honor to thy parents, thy prolong'd thy days may be upon the land the which the Lord thy God hath given thee. Thou shalt not murder. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal nor witness false against thy neighbor be. Thou shalt not covet house that to thy neighbor doth belong, nor covet shalt in having of his wife to him do wrong. Nor his manservant, nor his maid, nor ox, nor ass of his, nor any other thing that to thy neighbor proper is.