Ritual Decalogue - Biblical Context

Biblical Context

The Ritual Decalogue is framed in the context of God making a covenant with Israel:

Yahweh said to Moses, Cut two tablets of stone like the former ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets, which you broke. I hereby make a covenant.
Yahweh said to Moses, Write these words; in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments .

This is the only place in the Bible where the phrase Ten Commandments is close to a set of commandments.

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