Theological Term of the Week 
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 at 9:48PM
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Ten Commandments
Ten laws that God wrote on two stone tables and gave to the nation of Israel after the Exodus. They summarize the Sinai covenant, defining “the life that the Lord calls his people to live before him and with each other”;1 also called the Decalogue or the Ten Words

Learn more:

  1. The Bible: Exodus 20:1-21
  2. MacArthur Study Bible: The Ten Commandments
  3. Got Questions.org: What are the Ten Commandments?
  4. Bob Deffinbaugh: An Overview of the Ten Commandments
  5. Arthur Pink: The Ten Commandments
  6. Kevin DeYoung: Series of sermons of the Ten Commandments (audio)

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Filed under Old Testament History

1From the ESV Study Bible notes on Exodus 20.

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