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The Hebrew adultery command is only two words long, making a brief line carry one of the list's major responsibilities.
Ten commandments Word Search
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covenantFind to reveal
In Exodus, the covenant includes a shared meal on the mountain, putting eating together beside the giving of laws.
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Leviticus pairs loving your neighbor with loving the foreigner as yourself, repeating a generous standard for people who came from somewhere else.
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Genesis places Noah's ark on the mountains of Ararat, rather than a single named peak, leaving the story's precise landing site unspecified.
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Exodus connects Sabbath rest with creation, while Deuteronomy connects it with freedom from slavery, giving the command two explanations.
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The first command, to have no other gods, frames the whole list, which Jews call the Ten Words, not Commandments.
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Deuteronomy gives a false witness the penalty intended for the accused, turning a dishonest accusation back upon the person who invented it.
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Exodus describes people seeing the thunder in its Hebrew wording, blending sight and sound in the account of the mountain's extraordinary scene.
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Exodus says the tablets were written on both sides, unlike many paintings that show lettering only on their front faces.
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Moses receives tablets twice in Exodus, but the second time he cuts the stone himself before returning up the mountain.
True stories · Cambridge, England
The oldest copy
In 1902 a collector named Walter Nash bought a battered scrap of papyrus in Egypt. He presented it to Cambridge University Library in 1903. Scholars there pieced together four fragments and found the Ten Commandments written in faded Hebrew letters. For decades the Nash Papyrus was the oldest known Hebrew biblical manuscript on Earth, dated to roughly 150 years before Christ. Only the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls later pushed it from first place. Curiously, its wording blends the versions found in Exodus and Deuteronomy, and lists the commandments in an order that hints at how ancient worshippers may have recited them aloud. It still rests in a Cambridge library today.
We cannot break the Ten Commandments. We can only break ourselves against them.
Cecil B. DeMille
Trivia
On which mountain does the Book of Exodus say Moses received the Ten Commandments?
Mount Sinai (also called Horeb).
The Ten Commandments appear twice in the Hebrew Bible. Name one of the two books.
Exodus (chapter 20) and Deuteronomy (chapter 5).
Greek-speaking Jews and Christians call the Ten Commandments by what one-word name meaning ten words?
The Decalogue.
Different faith traditions divide and number the Ten Commandments differently. Name two such traditions.
Jewish, Catholic, Lutheran, and Reformed all divide them differently.
According to Exodus, what were the commandments written on, and by whom?
Two stone tablets, written by the finger of God.
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On which mountain does the Book of Exodus say Moses received the Ten Commandments?
Mount Sinai (also called Horeb).
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Father, forgive
On the night of November 14, 1940, German bombs gutted the medieval cathedral of Coventry, England, leaving only its outer walls and tower standing. Rather than vow revenge, Provost Richard Howard chose forgiveness, and the words Father Forgive were later carved into the scorched stone behind the broken altar. A local priest bound three medieval nails from the fallen roof into a small cross. That Cross of Nails became a worldwide symbol of reconciliation, sent to former enemy cities including Dresden. Each year the cathedral still prays the same two words over its open-air ruins.
You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.
Saint Augustine, Confessions
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Sources: Nash Papyrus (Cambridge University Library exhibit) · The story of Coventry Cathedral · The Ten Commandments and You, Cecil B. DeMille (BYU Speeches) · Nash Papyrus (Wikipedia)
Word list, facts & trivia researched and compiled by Sam Letterman — spotted a mistake? Tell us and we’ll fix it.