Has the church been right? Or is this an unfortunate old covenant residue that needs to be purged from the church? Read in canonical context, the Decalogue presents itself as a Christian text. To see how, we need to examine the text carefully. Scripture doesn’t use the phrase “Ten Commandments.” Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 record Yahweh’s “Ten Words” (Exod 34:28; Deut 4:13). These texts contain imperatives, but, like the rest of Torah, they include declarations, warnings, promises. That multiplicity