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GCSE Religious Studies · key term
The Ten Commandments, recorded in Exodus 20, which guide relationships with God and with other people.
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Specification 1.5 · Paper 2
Revise: Covenant at SinaiThe Decalogue means the Ten Commandments. They are central commandments within the wider Torah, which Jewish tradition identifies as containing 613 mitzvot. They connect worship of God with treatment of other people: faithfulness to the covenant involves both.
Specification 1.5 · Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3
The Ten Commandments, also called the Ten Utterances, set out in Exodus 20 and central to the covenant at Sinai.
Compare interpretations fairly. Orthodox and Reform Jews can both value the Decalogue while understanding its authority and application differently.
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The Decalogue means the Ten Commandments. Jewish tradition also calls them the Ten Utterances. In the Jewish numbering, the opening declaration identifies God as the one who brought the Israelites out of Egypt.
