The Ten Commandments given by God to Prophet Moses and the teachings of Krishna are the same. The concept of God as understood in their teachings today are different—Moses’ external God versus Krishna’s all-pervasive God. But the Ten Commandments are consistent with both these concepts of God.

1. Ten Commandments of Moses and Krishna
We have been suggesting that Prophet Moses was a same person as
Lord Krishna. In this post we shall try to see whether their philosophy is
also parallel to each other. The most well known theological statement
by Prophet Moses is available to us in the Ten Commandments that
were given to him by the Lord at Mount Sinai.
Ten Commandments and Bhagwat Gita give the same message
So we shall take the Ten Commandments and shall try to show that the
teachings of Moses and of Krishna could be interpreted in a parallel
manner.
The First Commandment is “I the Lord am Your God who Brought you
out from the Land of Egypt from the house of slavery.”
Now this statement as translated above seems to say that God is
someone external, He Brought the Hebrews out of Egypt as if a person
who standing on the shore has pulled someone from the water.

2. Similarly, this translation of this verse says we am Your God Who
Brought you out from Egypt. Now let us look at an alternative
interpretation of this verse. This verse has nine Hebrew words.
God pulled the Hebrews out of Egypt, or Hebrews pulled themselves
out with his help?
Now in the phrase “I the Lord,” “the” is not in the Hebrew text; in the
phrase “I am the God,” “I am” is not there in the Hebrew text; in the
phrase “Brought you out,” “Brought you” is not there in the Hebrew
text; in the phrase “You from the Land,” “You from,” is not there in the
Hebrew text; in the phrase “From the House,” “From the” is not in the
Hebrew text. In this manner we find that certain Hebrew words have
been expanded and the meaning has been explained. This may have
been necessary because the original Hebrew does not have vowels it

3. only has consonants and depending upon which vowel is inserted, the
meaning changes. Now in the line below we am interpolating different
words to arrive at a totally different concept: “I am the Lord God by
connecting with Whom you came out of Egypt.” This translation is also
consistent with the Hebrew text. However, this translation matches
with Krishna’s concept of the all-pervasive Monist Lord.
Moses led two million Hebrews out of Egypt
The concept of the Lord is different in the two translations. It is an
external Lord in Moses’ concept while it is an all-pervasive Lord in
Krishna concept. IN Krishna’s concept one gets the power of the all-
pervasive Lord and one becomes like the Lord. Therefore, the First
Commandment has two interpolations.== One, I am the Lord God who
brought you out from Egypt. Two, I am the Lord God by connecting with
Whom you came out from Egypt. Both are correct. Therefore, there is

4. no contradiction between the understanding of the nature of God
between Moses and Krishna.
In the Bhagwata Purana Krishna say’s idols of Mud and Stones are not
Gods
The Second Commandment is “make no idols.” The Hindu living
traditions make large number of idols and this is not considered good
by the Biblical tradition. However, Krishna himself did not honors idols.
The Bhagwata Purana is the document containing doings of Krishna in
the greatest details as per my knowledge. Here, Krishna says only idols
of mud, stone and wood are not gods. So Moses’ injunction: “worship
no idols” is same as Krishna’s saying. This teaching of Krishna may have
got degenerated over a period of time and today Hinduism has become
hugely idol worshiper.

5. The original teachings of Moses and Krishna can be very different than
the practice of Judaism or Christianity today.
It needs to be emphasized that teaching of Moses and Krishna could be
the same yet the practice of Judaism or Hinduism can be very different
because the same teachings may have diverged over time. We are
showing the similarity of the teachings of Moses and Krishna; and not in
the practice of either Judaism or Hinduism today.

6. Krishna say in the Bhagwata Purana that materialist Vedas do not tell
of the final truth.
The third Commandment is “do not make wrongful use of the name of
the Lord.” We understand this as making use of the name of the Lord
for material benefits. The same thing is said by Krishna in a slightly
different context.
The Hindu tradition has two set of scriptures--one is the Vedas and
other are the Epics and Puranas. The Vedas are largely materialist
whereas the Epics and Puranas are more philosophical. So, Krishna says
in the Bhagwata Purana: “the Vedas do not tell of the final truth; rather
they only help those who are attached to the world to cleanse the
psyche.” So the Krishna is saying do not follow the materialist Vedas as
the final objective because they will not take you very far. Moses saying
“do not make wrongful name of the Lord” can also be rendered as “do
not take name of the Lord as described in the materialist Vedas.”

7. The fourth Commandment of
Moses is to observe the Sabbath
The fourth Commandment of
Moses is to observe the Sabbath
The fourth Commandment is to observe the Sabbath. The Sabbath is
the seventh day of the week where one is supposed to rest and
undertake study, meditation and thinking. The Hindu tradition does not
have a concept of such a weekly rest as per my knowledge. However,
the Hindu texts tell of special days of the moon when one must
undertake study, meditation and thinking.
The Sabbath is mentioned along with the new moon day in the Bible.
The new moon day is considered holy whereas the Sabbath is
considered to be of a civil nature where a landlord is supposed to give a
day of rest to his workers and to his animals. It appears that the Bible
originally had the new moon day in the centre (since it was a spiritual
day) and the Sabbath as the civil attachment. Over a period of time, the
new moon day has been put in the back and the Sabbath has become
dominant.
The Hindu tradition had a great value for the new moon day (prathama
or pratipada) along with the full moon day (poornima) in the Bhagwata

8. Purana. It appears that the Hindu tradition originally had the new moon
day in the centre and the full moon day as secondary. Over a period of
time, the new moon day has been put in the back and the full moon
day has become dominant.
So, at the time of Moses and Krishna, the new moon was important.
But over a period of time the new moon has been put in the back in
both traditions and the Sabbath has taken the front in the Biblical
tradition; while the full moon has taken the front in the Hindu tradition.
So the two traditions appear quite different today even though they
appear to have been similar at that time.
Fasting was done on the Sabbath earlier just as Hindus fast on New
Moon Day.
An apparent difference in the two traditions today is that the Sabbath is
celebrated as a feast while the Hindu Full Moon is practiced as fasting.
However, scholars say that originally the Sabbath included fasting as

9. shown in the picture above. Therefore, fasting on the Sabbath or the
New Moon is parallel at that time.
The fifth Commandment is “honor your parents.” This is a very general
command and we do not find an explicit statement but the Hindu
tradition also placed great importance on honoring the parents.
Balrama took a weapon and killed a sage
The Sixth Commandment is “you shall not murder.” We find a very
interesting parallel in the Bhagwata Purana. At some time certain sages
were undertaking sacrifices. Balarama, the elder brother of Krishna,
was attending the same. Balarama was of the view that the particular
sage occupying the seat of the Principle Sage was not authorized to
occupy that position. Then, Balarama killed that sage. Thereupon the
rest of the sages said “O Balarama, you should not have killed the sage
without any provocation.” Balarama accepted his mistake and
undertook penance. This story is saying that you should murder
without any reason and is parallel to the Sixth Commandment.

10. The Seventh Commandment is “you shall not commit adultery.”
Krishna, in parallel, says “to be astray in adultery is in all cases
something contemptible. It harms the reputation, creates fear and
gives troubles.” So both Moses and Krishna are saying the same thing
The Eight and Ninth Commandment of “not stealing” and “not bearing
false witness” are again general although we do not find an explicit
statement in the Bhagwata Purana on this.
The Ten Commandment is “do not covet,” that is, do not be greedy,
The Ten Commandment is “do not covet,” that is, do not be greedy, do
not think of taking something that does not belong to you; or do not
get attached to material things. Krishna says the same thing. He says:
“there are three paths to Me.” Here “Me” is personified God in the
person of Krishna. So Krishna says, “There are three paths to reach me--
worship, thinking and action. Those who bereft of these three are
driven by senses keep wondering in the world.” Here Krishna is saying

11. do not allow yourself to be driven by the senses. The Tenth
Commandment “Do not covet” is exactly parallel.
Ten Commandment of Moses are parallel to teachings of Krishna
We find that the Ten Commandment which are given to Moses by God
and the teachings given by the Krishna are parallel as we can see in this
chart.
That said, the major difference perceived in the teaching of the Moses
and Krishna appears to be regarding the concept of God. Moses’ God is
an external authority who actively does things such as take people out
of Egypt. Krishna’s God is all pervasive with whom if you can connect
then you can take yourself out of Egypt.