'Commandments' in the Bible
saying, “If you will diligently listen and pay attention to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in His sight, and listen to His commandments, and keep [foremost in your thoughts and actively obey] all His precepts and statutes, then I will not put on you any of the diseases which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am the Lord who heals you.”
Then the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you [people] refuse to keep My commandments and My instructions (laws)?
but showing graciousness and steadfast lovingkindness to thousands [of generations] of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
Now the Lord said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commandments which I have written for their instruction.”
You shall put into the ark the Testimony (Ten Commandments) which I will give you.
You shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the Testimony which I will give you.
Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread and drank no water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
He took the Testimony [the stones inscribed with the Ten Commandments] and put it into the ark [of the covenant], and placed the poles [through the rings] on the ark, and put the mercy seat on top of the ark.