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There are more than six hundred commandments in the Torah, the first section of the Hebrew Bible. Today, around 300 to 400 of these commandments are applicable, since the Temple was destroyed. Only the Ten Commandments of the Old Testament are considered to apply to Christians, however Jesus gave new commandments to his disciples.

The term "Ten Commandments" is actually a misnomer. The original Hebrew is 'Asseret HaDibrot' which translates to The Ten Statements. These 10 statements encapsulate the 613 commandments found in the Torah that provide the basic blueprints for living a righteous life to Jews. From the Jewish perspective, all of the guidelines, including the 10 Statements only apply to Jews. For the rest of the world's nations, the Torah has what are referred to as the "Noahide Laws", these are 7 laws that provide the guidelines for living righteously to non-Jews.

Of the 613 mitzvot, many require the Temple to be standing, others apply only to those living in Israel, there are those that apply to people of specific tribes, and many are career or gender specific.

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God gave Moses one set of Ten Commandments. God wrote them on Mt. Sinai with His own finger. God instructed Moses to go down for the people were sinning, and into idolatry. When Moses saw this He broke the Ten Commandments of God in anger. Later, he (Moses) went back up to the mountain of God and God wrote them all over.

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There are 10 Commandments most Christian faiths. However, there are seven acts of mercy.

Judaism:In Judaism there are the Asseret HaDibrot (10 Statements) which essentially categorise the 613 mitvot (guidelines) given to the Jews to provide an outline on how they are to live righteously.

Additionally, there are what are called the "Noahide Laws". These are 7 core guidelines for all the nations of the world to live by which include such things as establishing just legal and court systems and the prohibition against murder.

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All of this bouncing around between secular definitions of men, is mind boggling. Open a King James Bible and read Exodus chapter 20 and you will find the commandments our Father gave to Moses written there. Now wasn't that a lot simpler ?

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Catholic AnswerThere are numerous commandments, I believe that the first five books of The Bible contain a total of 613 commandments, the Ten Commandments contained in Exodus XX and again in Deuteronomy are the most famous. The two overriding Commandments given by Our Blessed Lord in Matthew, chapter 22 beginning in verse 37 are to "love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and ..." and the second to love your neighbor as yourself.
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the ten commandments are thought to be the laws of God

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