Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, (Ten Words or Ten Terms in Hebrew) is a list of religious and moral imperatives that, according to the Hebrew Bible, were spoken by God (referred to using several names (Names of God in Judaism)) to the people of Israel (Israelites) from the mountain referred to as Mount Sinai (Biblical Mount Sinai) or Horeb (Mount Horeb), and later authored by God and given to or written by Moses in the form of two stone tablets. They are recognized as a moral foundation in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

In Biblical Hebrew (Biblical Hebrew language), the commandments are called langhe???? ?????? (transliterated (Romanization of Hebrew) langhe-LatnAseret ha-Dvar�m) and in Rabbinical Hebrew (Mishnaic Hebrew language) langhe???? ?????? (transliterated langhe-LatnAseret ha-Dibrot), both translatable as "the ten words" or "the ten things." The English name "Decalogue" is derived from the Greek (Greek language) translation langel????????? langel-Latndekalogos "ten terms", found in the Septuagint at Exodus (Book of Exodus) 34:28 and Deuteronomy (Book of Deuteronomy) 10:4.

The phrase "Ten Commandments" is generally used to refer to similar passages in Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21. Some scholars distinguish between this "Ethical Decalogue" and a different series of ten commandments in Exodus 34:11-27 that they call the "Ritual Decalogue". Although Exodus 34 contains ten imperative statements, the passages in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 contain fourteen or fifteen. However, the Bible assigns the count of ten to both lists. Various denominations divide these statements into ten in different ways, and may also translate the Commandments differently.