The ten commandments

My son has had to learn the ten commandments for Religious Education. Thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not... etc., but in German, of course.

Luckily, he learns things quite fast — faster than me, at any rate. On Monday, he wrote them out neatly and we taped them to the bathroom wall so that he could read them through each time he cleaned his teeth, with the hope that he would know them by heart by Friday — the day of the test.

At dinner, we tried to recite them together.
"Du sollst nicht begehren deines Nächsten Weib, Knecht, Magd, Vieh oder alles, was sein ist."
(In English: "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.")

"That's a bit old-fashioned, isn't it?" commented my husband. "Nobody has a Knecht these days!"

My daughter, standing beside him, fast as lightning, said, "Doch, der Nikolaus!"