The Noachide Code: The Seven Commandments of the Covenant of Noah, the universal moral code for all mankind.
Most people have heard of the so-called ‘Ten Commandments’, but what they don't know is that 'Ten Commandments' is a mistranslation. In the original Hebrew, ‘Aseret HaDibrot' correctly translates as ‘Ten Statements’, and it was ten statements that Moses brought down from Mount Sinai, carved on two stone tablets. According to Jewish tradition (which comes from the Divine revelation to Moses at Mount Sinai), the Torah of Moses contains 613 commandments for the Jewish people and 7 commandments for everyone else. One of the commandments given to the Jewish people was to be ‘a light unto the (non-Jewish) nations’, and as part of fulfilling this task they have preserved in the Talmud the ‘Universal Code of Seven Noachide Commandments’.
Noachides (descendants of Noah) are righteous gentiles who observe the seven universal commandments of the biblical covenant thatG-dmade with Noah as taught in Orthodox Judaism.
The biblical covenant of Noah (symbolized by the rainbow) is a Divine promise to never again destroy humanity. The Jewish tradition informs us that in return for this promise, all humanity must observe the seven Noachide commandments. This is the Divine plan for world peace.
I Kings 8:60-6160. So that all the nations of the earth shall know the Lord is G-d; there is none else. 61. Let your heart therefore be whole with the Lord our G-d, to follow His statutes and to keep His commandments, as of this day.Malachi 1:11‘For, from the rising of the sun until its setting, My Name is great among the nations, and everywhere offerings are burnt and offered up to My Name; yea, a pure oblation, for My Name is great among the nations, says the Lord of Hosts.’
