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OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xii. 114 Þa awrat se ælmihtiga god him twa stænene wexbredu mid his agenum fingre, on ðam wæron awritene tyn word, þæt sind tyn ælice beboda.

a1425 (a1382) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Deut. iv. 13 The ten wordis [L. decem verba] that he wroot in the two stonen tablis.

?1549 J. Hooper Declar. 10 Commandm. i. sig. B iii^v What so ouer is sayde or wroten by the Prophetes Christ or the Aposteles it is none other thing but the interpretacion and exposition of these ten wordes or ten commaundementes.

1641 H. L'Estrange Gods Sabbath 59 If this Commandment injoyneth now no particular and set time under the Gospel, then..God hath lost one of his ten words.

1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Exod. xx. 17) 63 These ten words written by God himself.

1705 tr. J. D'Outrein Short Scheme Divine Truths xvi. 174 Q. Why does the Spirit of God call these Words the ten Words,..and not rather the Ten Commandments? A. Because they contain not only Precepts and Prohibitions, but also Promises.

1882 Hebrew Student May 3/1 We..presuppose..that a Mosaic Tora lies at the foundation of the Pentateuch, and that this Mosaic Tora consists of more than the ten words of the Decalogue.

1884 S. Cox Miracles 18 The fundamental moralities of the ‘Ten Words’.

1916 H. T. Fowler Orig. & Growth Hebrew Relig. ii. 34 It has been recently argued in favor of the Mosaic character of the ‘Ten Words’ that there was no favorable opportunity for the replacing of any earlier contents of the ark by such tables between the time of Moses and the time of written reference to the tables in the ark.

1995 L. Jacobs Jewish Relig. 116 Decalogue, the ten words, better known as the Ten Commandments, given by God to the people of Israel at Sinai.