Ten Commandments for Kids

The ten commandments

Ten Commandments
Moses receiving the Ten Commandments,
from a Jewish prayer book written
in medieval Germany, about 1290 AD
(now in the Saxon State Library)
The Bible says that while the Jews were wandering in the desert between Egypt and Israel, Moses received a message from God telling him to go up to the top of a mountain. On top of Mount Sinai (SIGH-nigh), God gave Moses two stone tablets. Each tablet had five laws written on it, which told the Jews how God wanted them to behave. These were the ten commandments:

1) Don't pray to any god except Me.
2) Don't make statues or pictures of gods to pray to.
3) Do not take the Lord's name in vain.
4) Observe the Sabbath day and keep it holy.
5) Honor your father and your mother.
6) Do not kill.
7) Do not commit adultery.
8) Do not steal.
9) Do not bear false witness (do not lie).
10) Do not wish for your neighbor's wife, nor his donkey, nor anything that is his.


Here's a clip from the movie "Ten Commandments" showing Moses getting the commandments:


But when Moses came back down from Mount Sinai, he found the Jews worshipping a golden calf, instead of God. He was very angry, and destroyed the calf.

This is Moses (on the left) holding the Commandments up and casting a demon out of the golden calf (from the church at Vezelay, about 1140 AD).

More on the Jews (Joshua)

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