Bible-Quiz
The Ten Commandments
What
are the ten commandments of Bible?
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The Ten Commandments are a set of biblical
principles relating to ethics and worship. The text of the Ten Commandments
appears twice in the Bible: at Exodus 20:2–17 and Deuteronomy 5:6–21.
The
biblical narrative begins in Exodus 19 after the arrival of the children of
Israel at Mount Sinai (also called Horeb). On the morning of the third day of
their encampment, "there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud
upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud", and the
people assembled at the base of the mount. After "the LORD came down upon
mount Sinai", Moses went up briefly and returned with stone tablets and
prepared the people, and then in Exodus 20 "God spoke" to all the
people the words of the covenant, that is, the "ten commandments" as
it is written.
The
people were afraid to hear more and moved "afar off", and Moses
responded with "Fear not." Nevertheless, he drew near the "thick
darkness" where "the presence of the Lord" was, to hear the
additional statutes and judgments, all which he wrote in the book of the
covenant, which he read to the people the next morning, and they agreed to be
obedient and do all that the LORD had said. Moses escorted a select group
consisting of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and "seventy of the elders of
Israel" to a location on the mount where they worshipped afar off and they
saw the God of Israel above a paved work like clear sapphire stone.
And
the LORD said unto Moses, “Come up to me into the
mount, and be there: and I will give thee tablets of stone, and a law, and
commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them”. And
Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of
God.
— Mention
of the tablets in Exodus 24:12–13
The
mount was covered by the cloud for six days, and on the seventh day Moses went
into the midst of the cloud and was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
And Moses said, "the LORD delivered unto me two tablets of stone written
with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words,
which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the
day of the assembly." Before the full forty days expired, the children of
Israel collectively decided that something had happened to Moses, and compelled
Aaron to fashion a golden calf, and he built an altar before it and the people
worshipped the calf.
After
the full forty days, Moses and Joshua came down from the mountain with the
tablets of stone: And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp,
that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast
the tablets out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount. After the
events in chapters 32 and 33, the LORD told Moses, "Hew thee two tablets of stone like unto the first: and I will
write upon these tablets the words that were in the first tablets, which thou
brakest" and he wrote on the tablets, according to the first
writing, the ten commandments. These tablets were later placed in the ark of
the covenant.
The Ten Commandments
I.
I am the Lord thy God! Thou shalt have
no other Gods but me!
II.
Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord
thy God in vain!
III.
Thou shalt keep the Sabbath Day holy!
IV.
Thou shalt honor father and mother!
V.
Thou shalt not kill!
VI.
Thou shalt not commit adultery!
VII.
Thou shalt not steal!
VIII.
Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbor!
IX.
Do not let thyself lust after thy
neighbor’s wife!
X.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s
house, nor his farm, nor his cattle, nor anything that is his!
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