Ten Commandments and referring to the Greek translation (in accusative) , , "ten words", found in the Septuagint (or LXX) at Exodus 34:28 and Deuteronomy 10:4. The stone tablets, as opposed to the commandments inscribed on them, are called , "Lukhot HaBrit", meaning "the tablets of the covenant". Different religious traditions divide the seventeen verses of and their parallels at into ten "commandments" or "sayings" in different ways, shown in the table below. Some suggest that the number ten is a choice to aid memorization rather than a matter of theology. Traditions: The biblical narrative of the revelation at Sinai begins in
Alternatives to the Ten Commandments then added a third additional commandment. Christopher Hitchens was an English American author, columnist, essayist, orator, religious and literary critic, social critic and journalist. His new Ten Commandments are: Richard Dawkins is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. These are the alternative to the Ten Commandments, cited by Dawkins in his book "The God Delusion": Dawkins uses these proposed commandments to make a larger point that "it is the sort of list that any ordinary, decent person today would come up with". He then adds four more of his own devising: Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician,