Facts about the Ten Commandments

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Did you Know? List of Interesting Facts about the Ten Commandments

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Interesting Facts about the Ten Commandments are as follows:

  • Fact 1 - The Ten Commandments were written by the hand of God in stone, in the form of two stone tablets.

  • Fact 2 - In the Bible Exodus 31:18 refers to the tablets containing the Ten Commandments as the "Tablets of Testimony" because they give insight into the nature of God.
  • Fact 3 - According to the Bible, there were two sets of the Ten Commandments.
  • Fact 4 - The first Ten Commandments, inscribed by God, were smashed by Moses when he was enraged by the sight of the Children of Israel worshiping the Golden Calf (Exodus 32:4)
  • Fact 5 - The second set of the Ten Commandments were later cut by Moses and rewritten by God.
  • Fact 6 - Commandment 1: You shall have no other gods before me.
  • Fact 7 - Commandment 2: You shall not make for yourself an idol
  • Fact 8 - Commandment 3: You shall not make wrongful use of the name of your God
  • Fact 9 - Commandment 4: Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy
  • Fact 10 - Commandment 5: Honor your father and mother
  • Fact 11 - Commandment 6: You shall not murder
  • Fact 12 - Commandment 7: You shall not commit adultery
  • Fact 13 - Commandment 8: You shall not steal
  • Fact 14 - Commandment 9: You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor
  • Fact 15 - Commandment 10: You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor

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