Stone tablet engraved with Ten Commandments sells for $5 million A stone tablet carrying engravings of the Ten Commandments sold for $5 million at auction on Wednesday, Sotheby's announced.

According to biblical narratives in Exodus and Deuteronomy, God revealed the Ten Commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai, inscribing them on stone tablets as guiding principles for the community.

Efforts to post the Ten Commandments in public schools are ... then wouldn’t the Lord have sent Moses directly to Egypt with two stone tablets listing prerequisites for getting rescued from ...