NEW YORK — The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments sold for more than $5 million at an auction on Wednesday. Sotheby’s said the 155-pound marble slab was acquired by ...

(FILES) Sotheby s workers hold one of the most widely known and influential texts in history: the oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments during a press preview at Sotheby s in New ...

According to the story narrated in the Book of Exodus, God wrote these commandments on two stone tablets (the tablets of the law) and gave them to Moses for the Jews to fulfill. Before the auction ...

The oldest stone tablet depicting the Ten Commandments will ... the manuscript was heralded as the “earliest and most complete Bible,” drawing its name from its notable collector, David ...

The oldest known tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the Old Testament sold on Wednesday for $5.04 million, more than double its high estimate. The stone, which dates back around 1,500 ...

According to Sotheby's, the tablet served as a paving stone in a local home until 1943, when a scholar recognized its historical significance and purchased it. The oldest known stone tablet ...