The term commandments corresponds to the plural of the word commandment. Meanwhile, according to the context in which it is used, the word may refer to various issues ...
In its most general sense a commandment is that precept or order from a superior to an inferior.
On the other hand, at the request of the Christian religion, a commandment is each of the precepts of the Decalogue and of the Church. According to Bible, the profit Moses, approximately in the year 1,250 B.C. received directly from God a list of orders or commandments, written with his finger, that the Israelites should respect and called them the Ten Commandments, precisely because it is a list with ten orders.
According to what is related in the Bible, Moses climbed Mount Sinai and stayed there for forty days and forty nights, after which he received the aforementioned commandments from God and written on two stone tablets. Just when he was coming down from the mountain with the tablets, Moses observed how the people worshiped the golden calf and then, invaded by fury, he broke them. Then, Moses asked God to forgive the people and to enter into a covenant with them, after which God ordered Moses to write the ten commandments again on two stone slabs.
The ten commandments are as follows: you will love God above all things, you will not take God's name in vain, you will sanctify the holidays, you will honor your father and mother, you will not kill, you will not commit impure acts, you will not steal, you will not bear false witness or lie, you will not consent impure thoughts or desires and you will not covet the goods of others.
And finally to instances of law, a commandment is the written order of a judge by which something is ordered to be executed.
