The system of moral and ceremonial precepts contained in the Pentateuch; also in a narrower sense applied to the ceremonial portion of the system…

Ten Words: the Ten Commandments, the Decalogue.

spec. (plural). The Ten Commandments or precepts of the Mosaic Decalogue.

A general command or injunction; a rule for action or conduct, esp. a rule for moral conduct, a maxim; spec. a divine command.

The Ten Commandments collectively as a body of law.

In Scriptural language (chiefly in the Old Testament). plural. The precepts (of God), the divine law. Rarely in singular.

with a and plural. Authority.