Decalogue

List of religious precepts sacred in Judaism and Christianity. They include injunctions to honour God, the Sabbath, and one's parents, as well as bans on idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery, theft, false witness, and covetousness. In the book of Exodus, they are divinely revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai and engraved on two stone tablets. Most scholars propose a date between the 16th and 13th century BC for the commandments, though some date them as late as 750 BC. They were not regarded with deep reverence by Christians until the 13th century.

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Decalogue may refer to:

• Ethical Decalogue, or Ten Commandments, a list of religious and moral imperatives told to be written by God and given to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of two stone tablets
• Ritual Decalogue, the list of ten commandments found in Exodus 34
• The Decalogue (Dekalog), a series of ten one-hour films by Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski based on the Ten Commandments
• Decalogue, satirical poem by Ambrose Bierce

See also

• Decalog

It is another word for The 10 Commandments that God gave to Moses.