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• 10 Commandments


  Biblical principles that are connected to ethics and worship originally from the Jewish tradition that play a fundamental role in Judaism and Christianity
• 10 Commandments


  • Exodus
  • Mount Sinai
  • Moses
  • Two stone tablets
• Most scholars propose a date for the commandments

  16th and 13th century BC
• Some date the commandments as late as

  750 BC
• They were not regarded with deep reverence by Christians until the 13th century
• Moses


  Authorship of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible is traditionally ascribed to him
• Covenant


  In the Hebrew Scriptures, it is an agreement or treaty among people or nations, but most memorably the promises that God extended to humankind
• Sinai covenant


  God's revelation of the law to Moses on Mount Sinai created a pact between God and Israel
• New Covenant


  In Christianity, Jesus' death established a new covenant between God and humanity
• Yahweh made a covenant with the Israelites at Mount Sinai and delivered the Ten Commandments to Moses, who continued to lead his people through 40 years of wandering in the wilderness until they reached the edge of Canaan
• Moses died before he could enter the Promised Land
• Three different versions of the Ten Commandments in the Bible

  • Exodus 20: 2-17
  • Deuteronomy 5:6-21
  • Exodus 34:11-26
• The 10 Commandments given from Mount Sinai were a vital part of the Old Covenant – the agreement between God and the people of Israel
• Israel agreed (Exodus 24:3) to come under God's protection (Exodus 23:22) and, in return, to obey, love and be loyal to Him
• God's ultimate goal is not to have the 10 Commandments inscribed on tablets of stone, but to have them written in our hearts and minds so that we will remember them and always live by them
• The fault with the old agreement (Old Covenant) between God and man was not with God or with His law, but with the imperfect humans who could not continually obey these good and beneficial laws
• God's solution is the New Covenant, where "I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts" (Hebrews 8:10, quoting Jeremiah 31:33)
• Internalizing the 10 Commandments means we can grow to think, feel and act in the same way the Author of those commandments thinks, feels and acts. This is part of having the mind of Christ (Philippians 2:5)
• First Commandment


  "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth, you shall not bow down to them or to serve. them."
• It is written: "You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve."