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The Ten Commandments is a movie from 1956. It stars Charlton Heston as Moses and Yul Brynner as Rameses II. It was directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille. It is based on the books of Philo of Alexandria, Josephus, Eusebius, the Midrash and the Book of Exodus.

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  • Image of the 1675 Ten Commandments at the Amsterdam Esnoga synagogue produced on parchment in 1768 by Jekuthiel Sofer, a prolific Jewish eighteenth-century scribe in Amsterdam. The Hebrew words are in two columns separated between, and surrounded by, ornate flowery patterns.

    This 1768 parchment (612×502 mm) by Jekuthiel Sofer emulated the 1675 Ten Commandments at the Amsterdam Esnoga synagogue

  • The second of two parchment sheets making up 4Q41, it contains Deuteronomy 5:1–6:1

    Part of the All Souls Deuteronomy, containing the oldest extant copy of the Decalogue. It is dated to the early Herodian period, between 30 and 1 BC

  • The Giving of the Law

    1896 illustration depicting Moses receiving the commandments

  • This is an image of an oil on canvas picture by Rembrandt (1659) of a bearded man representing Moses with two tablets of stone of the ten commandments held high in both hands.

    Moses Breaking the Tablets of the Law (1659) by Rembrandt

  • 5493 - Venezia - Ghetto Nuovo - Negozio ebraico - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto, 1-Aug-2008

    The Ten Commandments on a glass plate

  • Moses and Aaron with the 10 Commandments 1674

    Moses and Aaron with the Ten Commandments (painting circa 1675 by Aron de Chavez)

  • Ten Commandments in India

    A Christian school in India displays the Ten Commandments.

  • Schnorr von Carolsfeld Bibel in Bildern 1860 054

    Moses receives the Ten Commandments in this 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, a Lutheran.

  • Sixth Commandment (Temple Church, London)

    The Sixth Commandment, as translated by the Book of Common Prayer (1549).The image is from the altar screen of the Temple Church near the Law Courts in London.

  • Monheim Town Hall 5

    18th-century depiction of Moses receiving the tablets (Monheim Town Hall)

  • Mozes toont de Tien Geboden

    Print of Moses showing the Ten Commandments. Made at the end of the sixteenth century

  • Picture of a large stone monument displaying the ten commandments with the Texas State Capitol in Austin in the background. The picture was part of a news release Wednesday, March second, 2005, by then Attorney General Abbott.

    Ten Commandments display at the Texas State Capitol in Austin

  • 1 Gebot (Lucas Cranach d A)

    The Ten Commandments by Lucas Cranach the Elder in the townhall of Wittenberg (detail)

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