ten commandments

     

The Ten Commanments, or Decalogue, are a list of religious and moral imperatives that, according to Judeo-Christian tradition, were written by God and given to Moses on the mountain referred to as "Mount Sinai" (Exodus 19:23) or "Horeb" (Deuteronomy 5:2) in the form of two stone tablets. They feature prominently in Judaism and Christianity. In Biblical Hebrew language, the commandments are termed עשרת הדברים (translit. Aseret ha-Dvarîm) and in Rabbinical Hebrew עשרת הדברות (translit. Aseret ha-Dibrot), both translatable as "the ten statements." The name "Decalogue" is derived from the Greek name δεκάλογος or "dekalogos" ("ten statements") found in the Septuagint (Exodus 34:28, Deuteronomy 10:4), which is the Greek translation of the Hebrew name.

Trivia about ten commandments

  • Observance of the sabbath appears on this do's-&-dont's list in Exodus 20
  • Controversy surrounded a 2003 ruling to remove from an Alabama judicial building a monument featuring these
  • Sweet! The fifth chapter of Deuteronomy raps out this list of dos & don'ts, just in case we spaced it
  • Thou knowest this list of nay-nays shows up in Exodus 20
  • "No graven images" is number 2 on this ancient list