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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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