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These laws are similar to the Covenant Code and are followed by the phrase "Ten Commandments" (Hebrew: עשרת הדברים aseret ha-dvarîm, in Exodus 34:28). Although the phrase "Ten Commandments" has traditionally been interpreted as referring to a very different set of laws, in Exodus 20:2–17, [2] many scholars believe it instead refers ...
Exodus 34:28 [163] identifies a different list, that of Exodus 34:11–27, [164] as the Ten Commandments. Since this passage does not prohibit murder, adultery, theft, etc., but instead deals with the proper worship of Yahweh , some scholars call it the "Ritual Decalogue", and disambiguate the Ten Commandments of traditional understanding as ...
The Old Testament refers to ten individual commandments, [15] [16] [17] even though there are more than ten imperative sentences in the two relevant texts: Exodus 20:1–17 and Deuteronomy 5:6–21. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] The Old Testament does not make clear how the texts should be divided to arrive at ten commandments.
Exodus 34:28 and Deuteronomy 4:13 and 10:4 refer to the Ten Commandments as the "ten words" (עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִים , aseret ha-devarim). In Deuteronomy 4:20, Egypt is described as an "iron furnace." Solomon used the same image in his prayer in 1 Kings 8:51 at the dedication of the temple he built in Jerusalem.
The covenant is described in stages: at Exodus 24:3–8 the Israelites agree to abide by the "book of the covenant" that Moses has just read to them; shortly afterwards God writes the "words of the covenant" – the Ten Commandments – on stone tablets; and finally, as the people gather in Moab to cross into the promised land of Canaan, Moses ...
exodus 34 God directs Moses to carve two stone tablets like the ones that Moses shattered. God makes a covenant to work wonders and to drive out the peoples of the Promised Land.
The Ten Commandments traditionally airs the Saturday before Easter, but this year it's airing a week early. The Charlton Heston classic will air at 7 p.m. ET on Saturday, April 9, 2022 on ABC.
According to the biblical narrative, the first set of tablets, inscribed by the finger of God, (Exodus 31:18) were smashed by Moses when he was enraged by the sight of the Children of Israel worshiping a golden calf (Exodus 32:19) and the second were later chiseled out by Moses and rewritten by God (Exodus 34:1).