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Calque of Biblical Hebrew עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִים ( 'aséret had'varím , “ the ten items ” ) , from Exodus 34:28, Deuteronomy 4:13 and Deuteronomy 10:4.
the Ten Commandments pl
( biblical ) particular list of religious and moral imperatives which, according to the Old Testament of the Bible or the Hebrew Bible , were twice given or dictated by God to Moses on Mount Sinai and inscribed on two stone tablets .
2024 November 12, Lauren Mascarenhas and Isabel Rosales, “Federal judge temporarily blocks Louisiana law requiring classrooms to display Ten Commandments”, in CNN [1] A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom by the new year.
( slang , dated ) fingernails , used by women when fighting .
1876 Evening Hours , page 629 :She'd drink the gin fust and give him her ten commandments artervards, when she'd aggerawated him to try it on.
1881 Running the Blockade: Or, U. S. Secret Service Adventures , page 148 :[ …] once or twice, when he cut up bad, she appeared to him, and scratched his face with her ten commandments [ …]
religious ten commandments
Afrikaans: tien gebooie pl
Albanian: Dhjetë urdhëresat
Amharic: አስርቱ ቃላት ( ʾäsrətu ḳalat )
Arabic: الْوَصَايَا الْعَشْر pl ( al-waṣāyā l-ʕašr )
Armenian: Տասնաբանյա ( Tasnabanya )
Basque: Hamar Aginduak
Belarusian: Дзесяць запаведзей f pl ( Dzjesjacʹ zapavjedzjej )
Breton: Dek Gourc'hemenn
Bulgarian: десетте Божи заповеди f pl ( desette Boži zapovedi )
Catalan: Deu Manaments m pl
Cebuano: Napulo ka Sugo
Chinese:
Cantonese: 十誡 / 十诫 ( sap6 gaai3 )
Eastern Min: 十誡 / 十诫 ( Sĕk Gái )
Hokkien: 十誡 / 十诫 ( cha̍p-kài ) , 十條誡 / 十条诫 ( cha̍p-tiâu-kài )
Mandarin: 十誡 / 十诫 (zh) ( Shíjiè )
Cornish: Deg Arhadow
Czech: Desatero (cs) n
Danish: de ti bud pl
Dutch: tien geboden n pl
Esperanto: la Dekalogo Dekalogo
Estonian: kümme käsku
Faroese: tey tíggju boðini n pl
Fijian: Na Vunau e Tini
Finnish: kymmenen käskyä
French: Décalogue m dix commandements m pl
Friulian: Dîs Comandaments m pl
Galician: Dez Mandamentos m pl
Georgian: ათი მცნება ( ati mcneba )
German: zehn Gebote n pl Zehn Gebote (de) n pl Dekalog (de) m
Greek: δέκα εντολές pl ( déka entolés )
Ancient Greek: δεκάλογος f ( dekálogos ) , οἱ δέκα λόγοι m pl ( hoi déka lógoi )
Guaraní: Tupã oheja ñandéve pa porokuaitáva
Hausa: Dokokin nan goma
Hebrew: עשרת הדיברות (he) pl
Hiligaynon: Napulong Sugo
Hindi: दस धर्मादेश ( das dharmādeś )
Hungarian: tízparancsolat (hu)
Icelandic: boðorðin tíu n pl
Indonesian: Sepuluh Perintah Allah
Interlingua: Dece Commandamentos
Irish: na Deich nAitheanta
Italian: dieci comandamenti m pl Decalogo m decalogo (it) m
Japanese: モーセの十戒 ( Mōse no jikkai ) , 十戒 (ja) ( じっかい, jikkai )
Khmer: ទសបញ្ញត្តិ ( tʊəh baññat )
Korean: 십계명(十誡命) (ko) ( sipgyemyeong )
Latin: decalogus m
Latvian: desmit baušļi m pl
Limburgish: Tièn Gebode n pl
Lithuanian: Dešimt Dievo įsakymų
Macedonian: Десет Божји заповеди f pl ( Deset Božji zapovedi )
Maguindanao: Sapulu a Sugu
Malagasy: Didy Folo
Malay: Sepuluh Rukun
Malayalam: പത്ത് കൽപ്പനകൾ ( pattŭ kalppanakaḷ )
Maltese: għaxar kmandamenti
Manx: Jeih Annaghyn
Maori: ture tekau
Maranao: please add this translation if you can
Navajo: Neeznáago bikʼeh óʼooʼníiłii
Norwegian: de ti bud pl Nynorsk: dei ti bodorda pl
Occitan: Decalòg m detz comandaments m pl
Ojibwe: gichi-manidoo odaangwaamitaagoziwinan
Pangasinan: please add this translation if you can
Persian: ده فرمان ( dah farmân )
Polish: dekalog (pl) m dziesięcioro przykazań (pl) pl or n dziesięć przykazań (pl) pl or n
Portuguese: Dez Mandamentos m pl
Quechua: Chunkantin Kamachiykuna pl
Romanian: cele zece porunci (ro) pl
Russian: де́сять за́поведей f pl ( désjatʹ zápovedej ) , декало́г (ru) m ( dekalóg )
Samoan: E Sufulu 'Upu
Scottish Gaelic: Na Deich Àitheantan
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: десет Божјих заповести f pl
Roman: deset Božijih zapovijedi f pl
Slovak: desatoro n dekalóg m desať Božích prikázaní
Slovene: Deset Božjih zapovedi pl
Spanish: Diez Mandamientos m pl Diez Palabras f pl Decálogo m decálogo (es) m
Swahili: Amri Kumi
Swedish: de tio budorden pl tio Guds bud pl
Tagalog: Sampung Utos
Tamil: பத்துக் கட்டளைகள் pl ( pattuk kaṭṭaḷaikaḷ )
Thai: บัญญัติ 10 ประการ ( banyát tót bpràgaan )
Turkish: On Emir (tr) pl
Ukrainian: де́сять за́повідей f pl ( désjatʹ zápovidej )
Vietnamese: Mười điều răn
Welsh: Deg Gorchymyn
West Frisian: Tsien geboaden
Yakan: please add this translation if you can
Yiddish: עשׂרת הדיברות pl ( aseres hadibres )
