The 10 Commandments (or Aseret Hadibrot, โ€œThe Ten Statements,โ€ in Hebrew) were communicated by Gโ€‘d to the people of Israel at Mount Sinai, 50 days after the Exodus from Egypt. The event is known as the Giving of the Torah. Gโ€‘d then carved the Ten Commandments onto two tablets of stone, which he gave to Moses. The Ten Commandments are not the entirety of Gโ€‘dโ€™s instructions for His people (there are 613 commandments). However, they contain within them the kernel from which the others emerge.