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In this case, the Ten Commandments are represented by the first ten letters of the Hebrew alphabet, which in Hebrew usage may be used interchangeably with the numbers 1–10. In recent centuries, the tablets have been popularly described and depicted as round-topped rectangles, but this has little basis in religious tradition.
The oldest known tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the Old Testament sold on Wednesday for $5.04 million, more than double its high estimate. The stone, which dates back around 1,500 ...
The stone, which weighs 115 pounds and stands at two feet tall, is believed to be the oldest known tablet featuring the entire Ten Commandments. The estimated age of the tablet somewhere around ...
The oldest known tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the Old Testament is expected to fetch up to $2 million when it goes up for auction next month.. The stone, which dates back around ...
The stone tablets, as opposed to the ten commandments inscribed on them, are called לוּחוֹת הַבְּרִית , lukhót habberít "tablets of the covenant", or לֻחֹת הָעֵדֻת, lukhot ha'edut "tablets of the testimony".
NEW YORK (AP) — The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments, dating from 300 to 800 A.D., will be sold in New York this month, Sotheby's auction house said. The 155-pound (52-kilogram) marble slab inscribed with the commandments in Paleo-Hebrew script will be auctioned on Dec. 18.
These laws were the Ten Commandments delivered to Moses on two stone tablets. The first and most important commandment was that they must not worship any god other than the Lord. [3] [12] Whoever violated this commandment should be killed [13] and Exodus 22:20 reads "Whoever sacrifices to any god other than the Lord must be destroyed."
A stone tablet containing the Ten Commandments is going up for auction. The historic artifact, which dates back to the late Roman-Byzantine era, will be auctioned off by Sotheby’s on Wednesday ...