At Mount Sinai, God spoke ten words to his people out of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness — and then he wrote them on two tablets of stone with his own finger (Exodus 31:18; Deuteronomy 5:22). This site walks through those ten commandments as Scripture gives them, and shows how the rest of the Bible, from Moses to the apostles, reads them.
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“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.”
Exodus 20:2
Notice where the commandments begin: not with a demand, but with a rescue. God had already brought Israel out of slavery before he gave them a single law. The commandments are the shape of life for people who have been set free.
Start here
- The Ten Commandments — all ten, in the words of Exodus 20, with where each one is echoed in the New Testament.
- Given at Sinai — the story of the two tablets: how they were given, broken, and written again.
- The Law and the Gospel — what the commandments can do, what they cannot do, and why Jesus said he came to fulfill them.
The whole law in two sentences
When a lawyer asked Jesus which commandment was the greatest, he answered by joining Deuteronomy 6:5 to Leviticus 19:18: love God with everything you are, and love your neighbor as yourself. “The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”