Decalogue Background

• Commandments are terse, absolute and apodictic
• Greek word meaning 'ten words'
• Covenant means agreement or promise
• God gave Moses the Ten Commandments on mount Sinai, written on 2 tablets of stone.

  Thunder and Lightening in OT was a sign of Gods presence
• Conditional Covenant

  "I will be your God and you will be my people if you follow the 10 commandments."