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According to tradition, the Commandments were written on this precious stone to remind the Israelites of the sky and God's promise to them.
What is sapphire (and/or lapis lazuli)?
The Jewish people were settled in this land located in the Nile River Delta
What is Goshen?
The unutterable name of God, Who Is
Who is Yahweh>
The most important commandment, and the easiest to break; you effectively break this one every time your break the others.
What is the First Commandment?
First person to receive a blessing from another person
Who is Rebekah?
Greek name for the Torah
What is the Pentateuch?
The single-word name for the "ten words"
What is the Decalogue?
Spokesperson for Moses, not accurately enough depicted in the first Dreamworks film
Who is Aaron?
Four-consonant "abbreviation" for God's unutterable name, called this very specific term
What is the Tetragrammaton?
The irreverent or light use of the name of God; disrespectfully speaking of holy things.
What is blasphemy?
This object turns into a snake that eats Pharaoh's snakes, representing the triumph of monotheism over polytheism
What is a staff?
Ancient Egyptian word for ruler or king
What is Pharaoh?
Traditionally, the Commandments are divided into what "sections"?
What are the "two tables"?
Traditionally, scholars have divided the Plagues into these three sections
What is a triad?
The physical manifestation of God's presence, as in a burning bush or a column of fire
What is theophany?
Often confused with profanity, this is when you call down misfortune on another person and does not require an f-bomb.
What is cursing?
A ritual meal, and the most important holiday in Judaism, maintained for thousands of years in commemoration of Exodus
What is the Passover?
Translated as the LORD GOD; alternative name for Yahweh in OT texts
What is Elohim?
The Hebrew word for "fulfillment of the law for its own sake"; a kind of good
What is mitzvah?
The First Plague, able to be replicated by Pharaoh's magicians, and likely explained by the phenomenon known as "red tide."
What is blood?
This virtues, which have God alone as their object, are commanded through the First Commandment
In Hebrew, this word is much more specific than kill
What is tirshah?
Three things required for a Catholic sacrament to occur
What are matter, form, and minister?
Hebrew for "who wrestled with God"; alternative name for Jacob
What is Israel?
There are this many commandments in total across the Torah
What is 613?
This plague represents a terrifying return to primordial chaos and lasts three days
What is darkness?
Moses asks God's name, and He responds with this more "familiar" phrasing
According to Paul, "At the name of _____, every knee shall bend," and the name to which you often see priests bow their heads at Mass
Who is Jesus?
The declaration that marriage did not actually occur, despite the outward signs, often due to a defect of consent or form
What is an annulment?
Hebrew for "princess"
What is Sarai or Sarah
This commandment is "written on gates" and "drilled into children" and regarded as the greatest of them all
What is the Shema?
This plague is regarded by scholars as God stripping Pharaoh of his wealth and power by bringing Egypt's crops to near-nothing
What are locusts?
The idea that God permits the existence of suffering to allow for the greater flourishing of the Good
What is theodicy?
The (forbidden) practice of marrying more than one spouse
What is polygamy?
The quality of being "set apart"; different from the ordinary
What is holiness?
Greek form of the Jewish canon, named for seventy-ish translators
What is the Septuagint?
Often mistaken for just a feeling, this theological virtue is an act of the will toward the good of the other, as other
What is love?
The first song sung in the Old Testament, still taught to Jewish children today as a part of Passover, and one of the required readings at the Easter Vigil
These small black boxes are worn by certain devout Jews in prayer in adherence to the terms of the Shema
What are tefellin?
Forbids the "murder" of the truth; speaking the unreal into existence
Kind of bread used during the Passover meal; "the bread of haste" also used during the Liturgy of the Eucharist in Catholicism
What is matzah/unleavened bread?
Alternative name for Mt. Sinai
What is Horeb?
This kind of work is permitted on the Sabbath and makes us "more human."
What is liberal work?
The number of Jewish men that exit Egypt, approximately
What is 600,000-ish?
These two commandments order our powers of speech, which are tied to the logos of God's creation in Genesis
What is Commandment II and Commandment VIII?
The name for the First Sin committed in the Garden; a symbol for humanity's disobedience; washed away in Baptism
What is Original Sin?
Not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be lived
What is a mystery (mysterion)?
Greek for "organizing principle" or "word"
What is the logos?