DISCLAIMER: There is a recent craze in pop culture claiming that the so-called Ten Commandments

were cribbed from Egyptian texts or elsewhere. Which is itself part of a much larger tendency toward
discrediting Ancient Hebrew culture generally. Many people falsely believe that the Hebrews were just a
bunch of goat herders until the Babylonian Exile when they were finally taught how to read and write.

GROUP 3

10 Commandments
And
The Book of the Dead

Similarities Differences

- the people on the book of

- both happened at Egypt the dead are Egyptians,
while the people on 10
- both believes in afterlife commandments are catholic
- their composition of the Israelites
texts relating to death and - 10 commandments are a
afterlife went back to the monotheistic belief which
pyramid texts means they only believe in 1
- both are speaking in God, while the book of the
terms of religion and the dead is a polytheistic belief,
faith towards God means they believe in 2 or
more Gods and Goddesses
- they both are written in
different forms but result - 10 commandments
with the same meaning. represent God’s order to
The Ancient Egypt’s humans on how to live, the
Book of the Dead states: book of the dead’s texts is
“I have not done violence about death and afterlife
(to any man) whereas to - The Israelites believed in a
The Hebrew Decalogue second life after death while
Egyptians regarded death as
simply a temporary
interruption