Q 01/05

According to the Hebrew Bible, to whom did God give the Ten Commandments?

A) Joshua

B) Moses

C) Abraham

D) Aaron

Answer · why

B) Moses

He went up the mountain twice: the first set of tablets was smashed, the second was stored in the Ark.

Q 02/05

On which mountain were the commandments revealed?

A) Nebo

B) Sinai

C) Ararat

D) Carmel

Answer · why

B) Sinai

The mountain is also called Horeb in the text; the revelation came amid thunder, fire and a very loud trumpet.

Q 03/05

What were the Israelites worshipping when Moses came down and smashed the first tablets?

A) A carved bull of Baal

B) A statue of Pharaoh

C) A golden calf

D) A bronze serpent

Answer · why

C) A golden calf

They had decided something must have happened to him and pressed Aaron to make it.

Q 04/05

Where were the second set of tablets later placed?

A) The Holy of Holies in Solomon's Temple

B) A cave on the mountain

C) The tent of Jethro

D) The Ark of the Covenant

Answer · why

D) The Ark of the Covenant

The tablets themselves are called the "tablets of the testimony" or "tablets of the covenant" in Hebrew.

Q 05/05

What alternative name for the Ten Commandments comes from the Greek for "ten words"?

A) The Didache

B) The Decalogue

C) The Pentateuch

D) The Septuagint

Answer · why

B) The Decalogue

The Septuagint translators coined dekalogos, which passed through Latin into English.