Read more The Ten Commandments The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and wait there, that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.” - Exodus 24:12 So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. - Exodus 34:28 The Ten Commandments are a set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship that play a fundamental role in Judaism and Christianity. The text of the Ten Commandments appears twice in the Hebrew Bible: at Exodus 20:2–17 and Deuteronomy 5:6–21. According to the Book of Exodus in the Torah, the Ten Commandments were revealed to Moses at Mount Sinai and inscribed by the finger of God on two tablets of stone kept in the Ark of the Covenant. Reformed Christians Version Catholic Church Version Lutherans Version Jewish Talmud Version I am the Lord thy God I. I. I. Thou shalt have no other gods before me I. I. I. II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image II. I. I. II. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain III. II. II. III. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy IV. III. III. IV. Honour thy father and thy mother V. IV. IV. V. Thou shalt not murder VI. V. V. VI. Thou shalt not commit adultery VII. VI. VI. VII. Thou shalt not steal VIII. VII. VII. VIII. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour IX. VIII. VIII. IX. Reformed Christians Version Catholic Church Version Lutherans Version Jewish Talmud Version Thou shalt not covet X. X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife [...] or anything of thy neighbour X. Reformed Christians follow Calvin's Institutes (1536) follows the Septuagint; this system is also in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. Another approach combines verses 3–6, the prohibition against images and the prohibition against other gods, into a single command while still maintaining ten commandments. Samaritan and Jewish traditions include another commandment, whereas Christian traditions will divide coveting the neighbor's wife and house. Jewish Talmud (c. 200 CE), makes the "prologue" the first "saying" or "matter." Roman Catholicism largely follows Augustine, which was reiterated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992) changing "the sabbath" into "the lord's day" and dividing Exodus 20:17, prohibiting covetousness, into two commandments. Lutherans follow Luther's Large Catechism (1529), which follows Augustine and Roman Catholic tradition but subordinates the prohibition of images to the sovereignty of God in the First Commandment and uses the word order of Exodus 20:17 rather than Deuteronomy 5:21 for the ninth and tenth commandments.