Torah
The Ten Words
Exodus Exodus 20:1-21
Scripture never calls them 'ten commandments' — it calls them the Ten Words (עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִים), the only law God speaks audibly to a whole nation. They open not with a demand but with a recital of redemption already accomplished, are summed up by Jesus in two commands of love, and provoke a terror so great the people beg for a mediator — the very longing YHWH approves and Christ answers.