![]() ![]() The Tyndale and Coverdale English biblical translations used "nine verses". In English this is sometimes rendered as "Decalogue", providing an alternative name for the Ten Commandments. In the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible was translated as δεκάλογος, dekalogos or "ten words". In all sources, the terms are translatable as "the ten words", "the ten sayings", or "the ten matters". The Ten Commandments, called עשרת הדברים \ עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִי ( transliterated aséret ha-dvarím) in Biblical Hebrew, are mentioned at Exodus 34:28, Deuteronomy 4:13 and Deuteronomy 10:4. It is dated to the early Herodian period, between 30 and 1 BC Part of the All Souls Deuteronomy, containing the oldest extant copy of the Decalogue. Scholars disagree about when the Ten Commandments were written and by whom, with some modern scholars suggesting that they were likely modeled on Hittite and Mesopotamian laws and treaties. The text of the Ten Commandments appears twice in the Hebrew Bible: at Exodus 20:2–17 and Deuteronomy 5:6–21.Īccording to the Book of Exodus in the Torah, the Ten Commandments were revealed to Moses at Mount Sinai and inscribed by the finger of God on two tablets of stone kept in the Ark of the Covenant. The Decalogue, The Ten Sayings, The Ten Utterances) are a set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship that play a fundamental role in Judaism and Christianity. This 1768 parchment (612×502 mm) by Jekuthiel Sofer emulated the 1675 Ten Commandments at the Amsterdam Esnoga synagogue ![]()
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