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Definition of: commandment
(kə·mand′mənt, -mänd′-) noun
An authoritative mandate; edict; order; law; especially, a command of God, and specifically one of the divisions of the decalog or moral law. See synonyms under LAW.
—the Ten Commandments The ten precepts given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai as recorded in Exodus xx 1–17; the decalog.
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