Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments , or the Decalogue (from <a href="/facts/Latin_Language/pM3Kge85">Latin</a> decalogus, from <a href="/facts/Ancient_Greek/LIK7NlUh">Ancient Greek</a> δεκάλογος, dekálogos, lit. 'ten words'), are religious and ethical directives, structured as a covenant document, that, according to the <a href="/facts/Hebrew_Bible/y8yblF9f">Hebrew Bible</a>, were given by <a href="/facts/YHWH/ylhCItp5">YHWH</a> to <a href="/facts/Moses/D0pp5HMQ">Moses</a>. The text of the Ten Commandments appears in three markedly distinct versions in the Bible: at <a href="/facts/Book_of_Exodus/7Mse01aP">Exodus</a> <a href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0220.htm#1">20:1–17</a>, <a href="/facts/Book_of_Deuteronomy/z2DwjhJp">Deuteronomy</a> <a href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0505.htm#6">5:6–21</a>, and the "<a href="/facts/Ritual_Decalogue/o8JbcqbI">Ritual Decalogue</a>" of Exodus <a href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0234.htm#11">34:11–26</a>.
According to the Book of Exodus in the <a href="/facts/Torah/BdJr9IFo">Torah</a>, the Ten Commandments were revealed to <a href="/facts/Moses/D0pp5HMQ">Moses</a> at <a href="/facts/Mount_Sinai_(Bible)/GrIE078u">Mount Sinai</a>, told by Moses to the Israelites in <a href="https://www.bible.com/bible/114/EXO.19.25.NKJV">Exodus 19:25</a> and inscribed by the <a href="/facts/Finger_of_God/1R5n1vpD">finger of God</a> on two <a href="/facts/Tablets_of_Stone/8etgJEuJ">tablets of stone</a>.
Scholars disagree when the Ten Commandments were written and by whom, with some modern scholars drawing comparisons between the Decalogue and <a href="/facts/Hittites/jqG8LbLK">Hittite</a> and <a href="/facts/Mesopotamian/f0mmbhTK">Mesopotamian</a> laws and treaties.

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Ten Commandments