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The Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, is a list of religious and moral imperatives which, according to the Bible, was spoken by Bible to Moses on Mount Sinai and engraved on two stone tablets. They feature prominently in Judaism and Christianity. In biblical Hebrew language they are termed (translit. Aseret ha-Dvarîm), and in rabbinical hebrew (translit. Aseret ha-Dibrot), both translatable as "the ten statements". The name decalogue is derived from the translit. Greek name or dekalogoi ("ten statements") found in the translit. Septuagin, which is the Greek translation of the Hebrew name.
This relief starts with an introductory phrase on the left "I am the Lord thy God" and is then followed with the Ten Commandments.
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