【Acrylic Painting by Dennis Tang】
(The Making of @ Youtube: Dennis’ notebook)
The book of Exodus in the Torah describes the liberation of the people of Israel from slavery in Egypt in the 13th century BC (3300 years ago), under the leadership of Moses.
During the escape, Moses parting the waters of the Red Sea so he and the Israelites could flee Egypt and travel to the Promised Land.
The Ten Commandments were revealed to Moses at Mount Sinai and inscribed by the finger of God on two tablets of stone kept in the Ark of the Covenant (Exodus 24:12-13). The Ten Commandments are the most well-known legal rules found in the Bible (Exodus 20:1-17), King James Version:
1. I am the Lord thy God；Thou shalt have no other gods before me； Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image
2. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain
3. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy
4. Honour thy father and thy mother
5. Thou shalt not murder
6. Thou shalt not commit adultery
7. Thou shalt not steal
8. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour
9. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, or his slaves, or his animals, or anything of thy neighbour
Some people accept that our modern laws are based on the morals of the Old Testament laid out in the Ten Commandments, and others see the Ten Commandments as a moral basis for the general legal order of the West.
The modern law is a heritage of the past, and the Bible certainly had an important influence on the common law legal system.
