Exodus 20:1–17

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Exodus 20:1–17 is the Old Testament passage that records the Ten Commandments given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Exodus 20 4
Exodus 20:13 1
Exodus 20:1–17 canonical 1

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bible passage
Old Testament passage
legal code text
addressedTo Israelites
Moses
attributedTo Mosaic authorship (traditional)
canonicalStatus canonical in Catholicism
canonical in Eastern Orthodoxy
canonical in Judaism
canonical in Protestantism
centralTheme covenant
divine law
ethical commandments
containsCommandment Honor your father and your mother
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy
You shall have no other gods before me
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor
You shall not commit adultery
You shall not covet
You shall not make for yourself a carved image
You shall not murder
You shall not steal
You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain
follows Exodus 19
genre didactic text
law code
hasLanguage Biblical Hebrew
literaryUnitOf Sinai covenant narrative
locatedIn Exodus 20:1–17 self-linksurface differs
surface form: Exodus 20
mentionsDeity YHWH
moralInfluenceOn Christian ethics
Jewish ethics
Western legal tradition
parallelText Deuteronomy 5:6–21
partOf Book of Exodus
Christian biblical canon
surface form: Christian Old Testament

Tanakh
surface form: Hebrew Bible

Five Books of Moses
surface form: Pentateuch

Torah
positionInBook early section of Exodus law collection
precedes Exodus 20:18–26
records Ten Commandments
religiousTradition Christianity
Judaism
Samaritanism
setting Mount Sinai
spokenBy God

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Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Decalogue biblicalReference Exodus 20:1–17
Revelation at Mount Sinai centralText Exodus 20:1–17
this entity surface form: Exodus 20
Christian pacifism interpretsPassage Exodus 20:1–17
this entity surface form: Exodus 20:13
Aseret ha-Dibrot primaryExodusReference Exodus 20:1–17
this entity surface form: Exodus 20
Exodus 20:1–17 locatedIn Exodus 20:1–17 self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Exodus 20
Matan Torah describedIn Exodus 20:1–17
this entity surface form: Exodus 20