WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Ten Commandments were given to Moses by God for all Jewish people to follow. They form part of the covenant made at Mount Sinai.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Ten Commandments are a list of religious precepts that, according to passages in Exodus and Deuteronomy, were divinely revealed to Moses by Yahweh and engraved on two stone tablets.

Detailed explanation-3: -The year the Ten Commandments were written is unknown. Scholars have proposed a wide range of dates on the basis of different interpretations of the commandments’ origin, from between the 16th and 13th centuries BCE to after 750 BCE.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to the Book of Exodus in the Torah, the Ten Commandments were revealed to Moses at Mount Sinai and inscribed by the finger of God on two tablets of stone kept in the Ark of the Covenant.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Ten Commandments of Judaism and Christianity are known as the Decalogue. This is from the Greek words deka, which means ten, and logoi, which means words. From a religious perspective, the Ten Commandments are ten rules on how we should live and behave.