
The Israelites journeyed for 44 days until the third new moon (i.e., the 1st day of the month of Sivan ), when they encamped opposite Mount Sinai, the place where Moses was initially commissioned.

In rabbinical writings they are called Aseret ha'dibrot ( עשׂרת הדברות), and in Christian theological writings they are called the Decalogue (from the Greek words deca and logoi ).Īs recorded in the Torah, the Exodus from Egypt occurred in the middle of the month of Nisan, immediately following the first Passover. In the Scriptures these axioms are called aseret ha'devarim ( עשׂרת הדברים) the "ten words" or "ten declarations" (see Exod. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS are a special set of spiritual axioms (laws) that the LORD Himself wrote on two stone tablets (luchot) that Moses brought down from Mount Sinai ( Exod. Two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, inscribed by the finger of God.

And he gave to Moses, when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the
