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Ritual Decalogue

Ritual Decalogue proper noun: one of the three lists of religious and moral imperatives called the Ten Commandments which, according to the Hebrew Bible, were given to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of two stone tablets. This list includes mostly ritual imperatives, as opposed to the other two, which include both ritual and moral imperatives.

Proper noun

Ritual Decalogue

  1. One of the three lists of religious and moral imperatives called the Ten Commandments which, according to the Hebrew Bible, were given to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of two stone tablets. This list includes mostly ritual imperatives, as opposed to the other two, which include both ritual and moral imperatives.
    • The lists of Exodus 34 and Deuteronomy 5 are called "ten commandments" in the biblical text [...], and that title, or the equivalent Latin term Decalogue, has traditionally been applied to the list of Exodus 20/Deuteronomy 5. Biblical scholars often distinguish the Exodus 20/Deuteronomy 5 list from...2008, Norman Gottwald, The Hebrew Bible: A Brief Socio-Literary Introduction, page 118
    Synonyms:
    ritual Ten Commandments, cultic decalogue

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What does Ritual Decalogue mean?
Ritual Decalogue means one of the three lists of religious and moral imperatives called the Ten Commandments which, according to the Hebrew Bible, were given to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of two stone tablets. This list includes mostly ritual imperatives, as opposed to the other two, which include both ritual and moral imperatives.
What part of speech is Ritual Decalogue?
Ritual Decalogue is a proper noun.

Words near Ritual Decalogue in the dictionary

  1. ritts
  2. Ritu
  3. ritual
  4. ritual abuse
  5. ritual abuses
  6. Ritual Decalogue
  7. ritual magic
  8. ritual servitude
  9. ritual Ten Commandments
  10. ritualic
  11. ritualisation

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