1.

Acquire a comprehensive

understanding of love of God

and responsibility towards
neighbor and creation.
2. Participate in building a
humane society through
pastoral care of people
especially the poor.
3. Continue to discern in prayer
the will of God.

 Flour
Sugar
Baking Powder
Salt
Eggs
Milk
Vanilla

How would you use these

ingredients to make a cake?

 Instructions are necessary to be

able to do what I asked you to do.

How are rules and laws like
instructions?
You could make a cake even if you
didnt follow instructions, but
you might not want to eat it.
If you carefully followed the
instructions of a good recipe, the
cake would be good to eat.

Rules are necessary in other

aspects of our lives.

Name some rules we should
follow to:
be safe
have good health
have good relationships with

others
have eternal life

 Rules bring order into our

lives and are necessary for

us to know how to live
happily.
In this lesson we will learn
about Moses and the
Israelites receiving the Ten
Commandments.
These are laws given by God to help us
know what to do and how to live so we
can be happy.

 The Israelites were

not happy when they

did not follow the
Ten Commandments.
They were denied
blessings when they
disobeyed the
commandments they
had been given.

The Ten Commandments (also called the

Decalogue) were given to Moses, the
great leader of the Hebrews, over 3,000
years ago after the Hebrews were
delivered from slavery in Egypt. While the
Law of Moses is made up of over 600
rules, the Ten Commandments were a
succinct list of rules from which the
others were developed. They are
recorded in two chapters of the Hebrew
Scriptures (specifically the
Pentateuch): Exodus 20 and
Deuteronomy 5.

When Jesus was asked, "What

must I do to inherit eternal
life?", he replied: "You know
the Commandments, keep
these and you will live." For
now, just notice that Jesus
attests to the importance of
the Ten Commandments. This
is why Christians still accept
them.

The Ten Commandments

The Jewish tradition (according to
Scripture) viewed the Law as a gift
from God, not an option or curse.
Christian tradition views sin as
enslavement rather than something
fun we are denied. To accept
salvation is to be freed from slavery
to sin and raised to a new life. In
the table below, you can see the
commandments and how they free
us from sin and free us for a new
life.

The Commandment

The Call

Action
All faith in God,
freedom from
I am the LORD your God,
Faith (Trust in
lesser gods:
1 you shall have no other
God)
wealth, sex,
gods before me.
power,
popularity.
Respect for
God and the
You shall not take the
Respect
things of God:
2 Name of the LORD your
prayer,
Holiness
God in vain.
worship,
religion.

Keep holy the Sabbath

day.

Honor your father and

your mother.

Renewal

Not just the Sabbath

rest, but setting aside
time for prayer, good
recreation, quiet
reflection.

Family

Loving care and

respect for all family
members, elders and
younger siblings, too.
Respect for elders in
general.

You shall not kill.

You shall not

commit adultery.

Courtesy to all,
speaking respectfully
to all, seeking the
best for all.
Respect For Life
Respecting others'
freedom while still
defending all human
life.

Chastity
Faithfulness
(Fidelity)

Faithful actions
beyond just
abstaining from
sexual contact
outside of marriage.
Respect for sex and
marriage.

You shall not

steal.

You shall not

bear false
witness.

Justice
(Honesty)

Concern for the rights

of others, especially
when they get in the
way of what we desire.
A commitment to
fairness and a
willingness to suffer
loss rather than
depriving another.

Truth

A dedication to what is
real and true, even if
that reality is against
our interests.

A desire to want
You shall not
only what God
9
covet your
Purity
wills. A singleneighbor's wife.
hearted devotion
to God's way.
A cooperation in
God's own
You shall not
generosity that
covet your
sees all goods as
10
Generosity
neighbor's
belonging to God
goods.
and freely given
for the good of
all.

 The Israelites traveled

in the wilderness for

two months. They
came to Mount Sinai.
Moses went up the
mountain. Yahweh
spoke to him. Yahweh
told Moses to tell the
Israelites how they
had been blessed.

 After the children of Israel came out

of Egypt and were miraculously helped

by the Lord to cross the Red Sea, they
traveled to the wilderness of Sinai.
When the Lord talked to Moses from
Mount Sinai, He asked Moses to
remind the children of Israel how He
had saved them from the Egyptians

Lets read Exodus 19:4

You have seen what

I have did to the

Eyptians and how I
carried you on
eagles wings and
brought you to
myself.

 Why was it

important for
them to remember
this incident?

Why should we always

remember blessings we
receive from Heavenly
Father and Jesus Christ?

 Yahweh had led them out of Egypt. He said

the people should obey His

commandments. He would bless them.
Moses went down the

mountain. He told
the people what
Yahweh said. The
people promised to
obey. They would do
what Yahweh said and
Yahweh would bless
them.

 A cloud of smoke came on

the mountain. Yahweh was

in the cloud. The mountain
shook. Yahweh spoke to
the people.
Yahweh wanted the
Israelites to hear his
voice. Moses told them
to stand at the bottom
of a mountain. The
mountain was called
Mount Sinai.

 What was required of the Israelites to

become Gods peculiar treasure?

Lets read Exodus 19:56

Now if you listen to me and keep my

covenant, you shall be my very own
possession among all the nations. For
all the earth is mine, but you will be
for me a kingdom of priests and holy
nation. And he added, This is what
you are to say to the people of
Israel.

 In the Old Testament the Hebrew

term from which peculiar was

translated is segullah, which
means valued property or
treasure (Russell M. Nelson, in
Conference Report, Apr. 1995, p.
44; or Ensign, May 1995, p. 34).
What can we do to show Heavenly
Father that we want to be part of
his peculiar, or covenant,
people?

 What did the Israelites say when they

covenanted with the Lord?

Lets read Exodus 19:8

All the people responded

with one voice, All that

Yahweh has said, we will do.
Moses then brought back to
Yahweh the peoples
response.

 What similar covenants have

we made with the Lord?

Our covenants at baptism to
keep his commandments.
When do we renew our
covenants with the Lord?
When we partake of the
sacrament each week

Why is it important to renew and

remember our covenants

each Sunday?
What sacred opportunity did the
Lord promise the Israelites if they
washed their clothes and purified
themselves?
Lets read Exodus 19:911

 Yahweh spoke to Moses, I am going to

come to you in a dense cloud so that the

people may hear me speaking with you
and trust you always. Then Moses
related to Yahweh what the people had
said. Again Yahweh spoke to Moses, Go
to the people and have them sanctified
today and tomorrow; let them wash their
garments and be ready for the third day.
For on the third day Yahweh will come
down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all
the people.

They were

preparing
themselves to be
presented to God.

 After the

children of Israel
had prepared
themselves to be
in the presence
of the Lord,
what did they
see and hear?

Lets read Exodus 20:18, 22

 In the meantime, all the people

witnessed the thunder and

lightning and heard the blast of
the trumpet and saw the mountain
smoking. They trembled with fear
and kept at a distance.
Yahweh spoke to Moses, Say this
to the people of Israel: You have
seen for yourself that I have
spoken to you from the heavens.

 The people heard Yahweh. They were

afraid. They did not want Yahweh to

talk to them. They wanted him to talk
to Moses. Then Moses could tell them
what Yahweh said.
Moses went back

up Mount Sinai.
Yahweh gave other
commandments
for the people.

 Moses told Aaron

and Aarons two

sons to come up
the mountain.
He also told
seventy elders to
come up. The
men went up the
mountain.
They saw Yahweh.

 Yahweh told Moses to come

higher on the mountain.

Yahweh wrote the
commandments on stone with
his finger. Yahweh gave Moses the
commandments.

 Moses was gone forty days and

forty nights. He did not eat or

drink all that time.

 What did the Lord give Moses on

Mount Sinai?
Lets read Exodus 24:12; 31:18
Yahweh said to Moses, Come up
to me on the mountain and stay
there. I will give you the slabs of
stone, the Teaching and
commandment which I have written
for their instruction.

When Yahweh had

finished speaking , to
Moses about all this
things, he gave him the
two slabs of the
Statement slabs of stone
written with the finger of
God.

What are the Ten

Commandments?
The Ten Commandments were
part of a more complete spiritual
law that God gave Moses.
1. Thou shalt have no other gods
before me (Exodus 20:3).

 2. Thou shalt not make unto thee

any graven image (Exodus 20:4).

3. Thou shalt not take the name of
the Lord thy God in vain (Exodus
20:7).
4. Remember the sabbath day, to
keep it holy (Exodus 20:8).
5. Honour thy father and thy
mother (Exodus 20:12).

 6. Thou shalt not kill (Exodus 20:13).

7. Thou shalt not commit adultery

(Exodus 20:14).
8. Thou shalt not steal (Exodus
20:15).
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness
(Exodus 20:16).
10. Thou shalt not covet (Exodus
20:17).

Love God

&

Love Neighbors

Lets look up Exodus 20:3-17

Enrichment Activity #3

Think of ways to live

these commandments.
I challenge each of
you to choose one
specific way to show
love for God and to
show love for your
neighbors this week.
Enrichment Activity #3

One of the seventy elders on

Mount Sinai was Joshua. He

waited there for Moses.
Aaron and
the other
men went
back down
the
mountain.

 Some of the Israelites came to

Aaron. They said Moses had been

gone a long time. They did not know
what he was doing.
They were tired of
waiting for him.
They wanted Aaron
to make an idol for
them to worship.
They did not want
to worship God.

How long

was Moses on
Mount Sinai?
Lets read
Exodus
24:18

And Moses entered the

cloud and went up the

mountain. Moses
stayed on the mountain
forty days and forty
nights

What did the

children of Israel
do because he was
gone?
Lets read
Exodus 32:14

 All the men and

women wore
gold earrings.
Aaron told them
to bring the
earrings to him.
He made an idol
out of the gold.
The idol looked
like a calf.

 Aaron built an altar near the

golden calf. Some of the Israelites

made sacrifices on the altar.
They worshiped the golden calf. It
was wicked to make sacrifices to
the golden calf.

 Which of the Ten Commandments

were the Israelites breaking in

worshiping the golden calf?

What kind of

graven images
or idols do
people in our
modern world
worship?

 Some people worship gods made of

brass or wood, the way the Israelites

worshiped the golden calf. But idol
worship can also be more than that.
An idol can be anything that
becomes so important that it takes
an inappropriate amount of our
time and thought. It becomes a
god to us.

 Today our false

gods can take such

forms as money,
material
possessions,
physical appearance,
recreation, or
idolizing famous
athletes, actors, or
musicians.

 Moses was on Mount Sinai

with Yahweh. Yahweh said

some of the Israelites were
doing wicked things. They
had forgotten me.

Yahweh was angry. He said the wicked

Israelites must die. He said Moses

would be blessed because he was
righteous.

Moses asked

Yahweh to
remember his
promise to the
Israelites.
Yahweh had promised they would
be a large family. They would have
the priesthood. They would have
the promised land.

Moses came down

from Mount Sinai

with the two large
stones in his hands.

Yahweh had written

the commandments
on the stones with
His finger.

 Moses saw the golden

calf and the Israelites

dancing. Some had
no clothes on.

Moses was very

angry and threw

the stones down.
They broke.

How did Moses react when he

saw what the Israelites had

done?
Lets read Exodus 32:19
Why did he break the tablets
of stone?
He couldnt share such sacred
things with people who were
not ready to receive them.

Moses threw the

golden calf in
the fire. He was
angry at Aaron.

Moses asked Aaron why he had

helped the Israelites to be wicked.

Aaron said he did what the
Israelites wanted him to do.

 Why do you think they asked

Aaron to make the golden calf?

Why do you think Aaron agreed
to do it?
Whom did Aaron blame for his
actions?
Lets read Exodus 32:2224
What should we do instead of
blaming others when we do
something wrong?

Moses asked the

righteous
Israelites to come
to him. He said
they would be
blessed.
He told them the
wicked Israelites
must die.

 Yahweh told Moses

to bring two new

stones to the top of
Mount Sinai.
Yahweh again wrote
the Ten
Commandments on
them. Moses took
the commandments
down to the people.

Because of their

wickedness, the
children of Israel lost
the opportunity to
have the higher
spiritual laws.

Loss of FreedomUnhappiness

FreedomHappiness
Although Satan often makes it

look like fun to break the

commandments, all the choices
we make have consequences.
Enrichment Activity #4

 When people follow Satans plan,

at first it seems to give them more

freedom. But as they continue to
make wrong choices, the
consequences begin to bind them.

Enrichment Activity #4

 For example, if people lie

and cheat, they are not

worthy to be in the
presence of God.
People who choose to
keep the commandments
may at first feel restricted.
But as they continue to
make right choices, their
lives begin to open up to
greater freedoms.
Enrichment Activity #4

 For instance, if

young people stay

pure and morally
clean, later they will
have the privilege
of going to the holy
temple to receive all
the blessings of
Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob.
Enrichment Activity #4

I bear my testimony

that because the

Lord loves us, he
gives us
commandments.
Obeying these laws
brings us happiness.

. Why it is important to follow the

Ten Commandments? What is the
significant of these commandments
in our lives?
2. Make a personal commandments
based on the Ten commandments of
God.
What particular commandment
that you discover difficult/easy to
follow?
1

What did the Lord

have Moses do
after Moses broke
the first set of
tablets?
Lets read Exodus
34:1, 28

 How would keeping the

Ten Commandments
have blessed the
children of Israel?
How will keeping the
Ten Commandments
bless us?
Why is it so important to obey

the commandments?

 How did Moses show great love

for his people even though they

had done wrong?
Lets read Exodus 32:3032
How did the Lord show his love
for the Israelites?
Exodus 32:14; the Lord promised
to spare the Israelites if they
would repent of the evil they had
done.