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Ten Commandments

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Ten Commandments  (tn)
pl.n. Bible
The ten injunctions given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, serving as the basis of Mosaic Law.
Ten Commandments
pl n
(Christian Religious Writings / Bible)
the Old Testament the commandments summarizing the basic obligations of man towards God and his fellow men, delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai engraved on two tables of stone (Exodus 20:1-17) Also called the Decalogue
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Noun1.Ten CommandmentsTen Commandments - the biblical commandments of Moses  
Decalogue


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He took this Indian into his family, and by constant intercourse with him soon become sufficiently conversant with the vocabulary and construction of the language to translate the ten commandments, the Lord's prayer, and several passages of Scripture, besides composing exhortations and prayers.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
the old gentlemen, not in the least knowing what point of the ceremony we had arrived at, stood most amiably beaming at the ten commandments.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
`And a deal sooner I would,' says Fletcher; `for what's more against one's stomach than a man coming and making himself bad company with his religion, and giving out as the Ten Commandments are not enough for him, and all the while he's worse than half the men at the tread-mill?
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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