How did God write the ten commandments?

Answer 1

Biblical View

According to the original scrolls of the Old Testament the ten commandments were written in Hebrew. Presumably as they were given to the Jews, and Hebrew was their language and however presented to them needed to be understood, I don't think there is ever a question about that.

However, there has been, and remains, a heated academic dispute about if the scrolls/tablets were written by G-d and handed to Moses, or told to Moses and written (more properly I guess etched), by him on the mountain.

Current Archaeological View

If current archaeological beliefs are correct, there was no Exodus from Egypt. Therefore there was no event of receiving the tablets in the 12th century BCE. The tablets (if they existed) would have been hand-carved centuries later as the Israelite tribes were establishing themselves in the Judean highlands, but at some time before the Davidic Kingship because the Jahwist source lists the commandments in Exodus ch. 20. If this were the case, the tablets would have been written in the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet (which has been dated to the 10th century BCE and possibly earlier). The Hebrew language, though, would be roughly the same as what we find in the Old Testament, just with a different alphabet.

You cannot mix the Biblical story of the Ten Commandments' revelation with the Archaeology to come up with a tablet written in the 12th century BCE in Hebrew and date it to the Israelite civilization. Either you accept the Biblical account or you go with the current archaeological theories.

Answer 2

The Ten Commandments represent the law given by God to his people by way of Moses. In addition to defining God's idea of perfection, they provide a moral code for governing our lives.

And he gave unto Moses ... two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God." "And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables." Exodus 31:18; 32:16.

Answer 3

People usually mistake and say Moses wrote the ten commandments when really he didn't. God called Moses upon the mountain and when Moses came he brought the stone tablet, and while he was up there God wrote the ten commandments in Hebrew with his finger

Answer 4

As we see in the Five Books of Moses (the Torah), Moses wrote in Biblical Hebrew. All non-Hebrew texts of the Torah (Pentateuch) are translations based on the original Hebrew text.

The English names of the Five Books of Moses are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

Answer 5

As we see in the Five Books of Moses (the Torah), Moses wrote in Biblical Hebrew. See also the Related Link.

Accuracy of the Torah and untrustworthiness of its critics

Answer 6

Moses wrote in hebriew.