In this page you can discover 28 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for commandment, like: instruction, order, law, mandate, edict, mitzvah, precept, behest, command, dictate and rule.

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Do the following because I am the lord your god:

1. Don’t worship other gods.
2. Don’t take god’s name in vain.
3. Keep the sabbath.
4. Honor your parents.
5. Don’t murder.
6. Don’t be an adulterer.
7. Don’t steal.
8. Don’t commit perjury.

“You shan’t covet” means that we should banish our desires for whatever doesn’t belong to us. Never having enough money is regarded as a symptom of the love of money. Obedience to the tenth commandment requires that envy be banished from the human heart.

The first commandment: “I am the Lord, thy God,” corresponds to the sixth: “Thou shalt not kill,” for the murderer slays the image of God.

You must not make any idols. Don’t make any statues or pictures of anything up in the sky or of anything on the earth or of anything down in the water. Don’t worship or serve idols of any kind, because I, the Lord, am your God. I hate my people worshiping other gods.

God declared that the Israelites were his own people and that they must listen to God and obey His laws. These laws were the Ten Commandments which were given to Moses on two stone tablets, and they set out the basic principles that would govern the Israelites lives.

Because Pharaoh refused to set the Israelites free, God decided to punish him, sending ten plagues on to Egypt. These included: The Plague of Blood. God ordered Aaron to touch the River Nile with his staff – and the waters were turned to blood.

Mount Sinai

The Legislature has declared the Ten Commandments to be the fundamental legal code of Western Civilization and the common law of the United States.

Location: Mount Sinai, Egypt God gave Moses the Ten Commandments in the Book of Exodus on two tablets of stone on Mount Sinai to confirm the moral principles of the covenant between God and the Israelites.

The Bible has had a significant impact on American law and constitutional tradition. The early colonists who settled in British North America brought with them the English common law, a system of jurisprudence that its leading authorities claimed was based on Christianity.

Significance of 613 The Talmud notes that the Hebrew numerical value (gematria) of the word Torah is 611, and combining Moses’s 611 commandments with the first two of the Ten Commandments which were the only ones heard directly from God, adds up to 613.

THE 613 MITZVOT

• To know there is a God. (Exodus 20:2)
• To have not other gods. (Exodus 20:3)
• To know that He is one. (Deuteronomy 6:4)
• To love Him. (Deuteronomy 6:5)
• To fear Him. (Deuteronomy 10:20)
• To sanctify His Name.
• Not to profane His Name.
• To worship Him as He has ordered and not destroy holy objects.

As he approached the camp and saw the calf and the groups dancing, Moses’ anger blazed. He threw down the tablets he was holding and broke them at the foot of the mountain (Exod 32:15, 19).

With a budget of $13 million, The Ten Commandments was, at the time, the most expensive film ever made. It was also one of the most financially successful, grossing approximately $122.7 million, around $1.2 billion in today’s money, at the box office in its initial run alone.

Moses burnt the golden calf in a fire, ground it to powder, scattered it on water, and forced the Israelites to drink it. When Moses asked him, Aaron admitted to collecting the gold, and throwing it into the fire, and said it came out as a calf (Exodus 32:21–24).

Historians and archeologists believe it was not the animal itself that was the object of worship. Canaanites believed that their pagan Gods rode on these strong and sacred beasts. So the temples showed the calves as representations of the deities, and worshipers made sacrifical offerings to the animals.

Aaron is described in the Book of Exodus of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) as a son of Amram and Jochebed of the tribe of Levi, three years older than his brother Moses.

It was a symbol of virility and strength associated with the Canaanite god El, and such idolatry would persist into the period of the divided monarchy. King Jeroboam I of the Northern Kingdom of Israel commissioned two golden calves for the sanctuaries of Yahweh in Bethel and Dan, to serve as the Lord’s attendants.

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After the Ten Plagues, Moses led the Exodus of the Israelites out of Egypt and across the Red Sea, after which they based themselves at biblical Mount Sinai, where Moses received the Ten Commandments….