Topic
Commandments, the Ten
16 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
These works date from 1897–1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Exodus 34:28Easton · Torrey Written by God
And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
- Deuteronomy 4:13Easton · Torrey Written by God
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
- Deuteronomy 10:4Easton · Torrey Written by God
And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.
- Exodus 19:10–25Easton
¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes, And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. And…
- Exodus 20:1Torrey Spoken by God
And God spake all these words, saying,
- Exodus 20:3–17Torrey Enumerated
Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to…
- Exodus 32:16Torrey Written by God
And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
- Exodus 34:1Torrey Written by God
And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
- Deuteronomy 5:4Torrey Spoken by God
The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
- Deuteronomy 5:22Torrey Spoken by God
¶ These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
- Deuteronomy 10:5Easton
And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.
- 1 Kings 8:9Easton
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
Show 4 more
- Matthew 5:28 Torrey Law of, is spiritual
- Matthew 22:35–40 Torrey Summed up Christ
- Romans 7:14 Torrey Law of, is spiritual
- Hebrews 9:4 Easton
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 11 references
(Ex. 34:28; Deut. 10:4, marg. “ten words”) i.e., the Decalogue (q.v.), is a summary of the immutable moral law. These commandments were first given in their written form to the people of Israel when they were encamped at Sinai, about fifty days after they came out of Egypt (Ex. 19:10-25). They were written by the finger of God on two tables of stone. The first tables were broken by Moses when he brought them down from the mount (32:19), being thrown by him on the ground. At the command of God he took up into the mount two other tables, and God wrote on them “the words that were on the first tables” (34:1). These tables were afterwards placed in the ark of the covenant (Deut. 10:5; 1 Kings 8:9). Their subsequent history is unknown. They are as a whole called “the covenant” (Deut. 4:13), and “the tables of the covenant” (9:9, 11; Heb. 9:4), and “the testimony.”
They are obviously “ten” in number, but their division is not fixed, hence different methods of numbering them have been adopted. The Jews make the “Preface” one of the commandments, and then combine the first and second. The Roman Catholics and Lutherans combine the first and second and divide the tenth into two. The Jews and Josephus divide them equally. The Lutherans and Roman Catholics refer three commandments to the first table and seven to the second. The Greek and Reformed Churches refer four to the first and six to the second table. The Samaritans add to the second that Gerizim is the mount of worship. (See LAW.)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 0 references
See COMMANDMENT; TEN COMMANDMENTS.
In the topical indexes
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 12 references, grouped by sub-topic
- Spoken by God Ex 20:1; De 5:4,22
- Written by God Ex 32:16; 34:1,28; De 4:13; 10:4
- Enumerated Ex 20:3-17
- Summed up Christ Mt 22:35-40
- Law of, is spiritual Mt 5:28; Ro 7:14
- See LAW of God
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.