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Ten Commandments
I am the
Lord your God You shall not make wrongful use of the name of your God Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy Honor your father and mother You shall not kill You shall not commit adultery You shall not steal You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor You shall not covet your neighbor's wife You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor
The Ten Commandments, or
Decalogue, are a list of religious and moral imperatives that,
according to Judeo-Christian tradition, were authored 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 (translit. Aseret ha-Dvarîm) and in
Rabbinical Hebrew (translit. Aseret ha-Dibrot), both translatable as
"the ten statements." The name "Decalogue" is
derived from the Greek name The phrase "Ten Commandments" is generally used to refer to similar passages in Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21. Some scholars distinguish between this "Ethical Decalogue" and a different series of ten commandments in Exodus 34 that they call the "Ritual Decalogue". Although Exodus 34 contains ten imperative statements, the passages in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 contain more than ten, totaling fourteen or fifteen in all. However, the Bible assigns the count of "ten" to both lists. Various denominations divide these statements into ten in different ways, and may also translate the Commandments differently.
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or "dekalogos" ("ten statements") found in the
Septuagint (