why did god give the ten commandments to moses
To tell the people of Israel how to live their lives. God wanted to give the Torah in a public, incontrovertible way. To accomplish that, He gave the Ten Commandments in the presence and the eyes and ears of the entire Jewish nation, to be the central pillar upon which the rest of the Torah would stand.ccording to the Bible, Moses became the Israelites' leader; he led them out of Egypt and God gave the commandments to Moses to give them to the Israelites.