Ten Commandments
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Ten Commandments
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Calque of Biblical Hebrew עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִים ('aséret had'varím, “the ten items”), from Exodus 34:28, Deuteronomy 4:13 and Deuteronomy 10:4.
proper noun the Ten Commandments · ten commandments
- A particular list of religious and moral imperatives which, according to the Old Testament of the Bible or the Hebrew Bible, were twice given or dictated by God to Moses on Mount Sinai and inscribed on two stone tablets. A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom by the new year.
- A list of principal rules in a given field. These may well be the ten commandments of interpretation.
- The ten fingernails, used by women when fighting. She'd drink the gin fust and give him her ten commandments artervards, when she'd aggerawated him to try it on.
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name religious ten commandments
| Español | Diez Mandamientos, Diez Palabras, Decálogo, decálogo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 십계명 sipgyemyeong |
| 日本語 | モーセの十戒 Mōse no jikkai, 十戒 jikkai |
| 中文 | 十誡 /十诫 Shíjiè |
| हिन्दी | दस आज्ञाएँ das ājñāẽ |
| Kiswahili | Amri Kumi |
| Português | Dez Mandamentos |
| Français | Décalogue, dix commandements |
| Deutsch | zehn Gebote, Zehn Gebote, Dekalog |
| Italiano | dieci comandamenti, Decalogo, decalogo |
| Ελληνικά | δέκα εντολές déka entolés |
| Română | cele zece porunci |
| Русский | де́сять за́поведей désjatʹ zápovedej, декало́г dekalóg |
| Tiếng Việt | Mười điều răn |
| العربية | الْوَصَايَا الْعَشْر al-waṣāyā l-ʕašr |
| עברית | עשרת הדיברות |
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