“The order of the commandments thus gives some insight into Israel’s hierarchy of values. Roughly speaking, the order was:

1️⃣ God

2️⃣ family

3️⃣ life

4️⃣ sex

5️⃣ property

It is sobering, looking at that order, that in modern society (in its debased Western form at least) we have almost exactly reversed that order of values.

Money and sex matter a lot more than human life, the family is scorned in theory and practice, and God is the last thing in most people’s thinking, let alone priorities.”

Christopher J.H. Wright