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Are the 10 commandments also for God to keep?

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No, but with the exception of Commandment 6: "Don't Murder" and Commandment 8: "Don't Steal", none of them would apply to God anyway.

1) You shall have no other Gods before me -- God does not worship Himself or other Gods.

2) You shall not make a graven of something created -- God did the creating, it would not be sensible for him to make something weaker

3) Do not take the Lord's name in vain -- God can talk about himself all he wants

4) Honor the Sabbath -- He invented it

5) Honor your Father and Mother -- He is the child of no-one

7) Do not commit adultery -- God (unlike Zeus) is not married and does not have random sex with women

9) Do not commit false witness -- God does not testify to courtrooms

10) Do not covet -- What would he covet, He has everything.

For the commandments that would make sense 6 & 8, the following rationales have been provided:

6) Don't Murder: God has ordered several genocides, especially in the Old Testament and (depending on your interpretation) the Qur'an. These were to prevent the unbelievers from preventing the dissemination of God's will and prevent large amounts of reckless behavior from believers.

8) Don't Steal: God commonly reassigns property and sovereignty rights. Since he is sovereign over all the world he does not need to take to give, although people may see it that way.

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