“…Hear, O Israel, the statues and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them” (Deuteronomy 5:1).

What makes a commandment negative to me?

Is my heart set to listen that I may learn, keep, and do?

Who is the Lord to me? (See verse 6 to get my drift: To the Israelite, He was “the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of….”)

“Hear…that ye may learn.”