Lent Midweek 1 – The Ten Commandments

During the season of Lent, I’ll be doing a post each midweek about a topic related to the season.  This week’s post is about the Ten Commandments.

Deuteronomy 5:6-21 contains the Ten Commandments, known as the “Ten Words” (or Decalogue) by the Israelites.  The word “Deuteronomy” itself means “second law.”  This name comes from the fact that the book of Deuteronomy is a recounting of the history of the people of Israel after the Lord had delivered them up out of Egypt.  It’s basically the even...