Jesus did not abolish the Ten Commandments at Calvary. They are independent of the Mosaic Code. They preceded the Law of Moses, coming to us from Creation; therefore, the ending of the Moses’ ministration, or Civil Code, did not mean the End of the Ten Commandments. Moses enforced obedience to the original basic code; the Ten Commandments, as Mediator of the Old Covenant. Under the New Covenant; our Mediator, the Lord Jesus Christ, enforces obedience to the same basic Universal Laws, the Ten Commandments, from the heart, with no changes of the original law. While setting aside some of Moses’ administrative code, Jesus recognized two full authority of that Original Law, the Ten Commandments. To Jesus the Ten Commandments does hold an independent place from the Mosaic law. The same is true of Paul’s Epistles.

What we want to consider is when these Laws appeared, what they consisted of and why they stand or fall. Paul speaks of an Added Law, and Abolished Law, and he also speaks of blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us! He also tells us the first covenant had Ceremonies of Divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. What was that middle wall of partition between us that was broken down by Christ? What laws was abolished at Christ’s death? Are we to keep God’s Holy Laws (the Ten Commandments) in this dispensation?
We found without Law there is no Sin! The first law on record was “thou shall not, found in Gen.2:17. The “Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil,” contained the knowledge of what constitutes sin. By the law is the knowledge of sin” (Rom.3:20). The “Covenant Law” (the Ten Commandments) began at Eden! Though not spelled out until Sinai as a cod, was known and was the yardstick by which the world was judged! Others were added to it to further define sin as the world continued on. Cain, motivated by jealousy and hate, slew his brother Abel and was condemned by the Law (Gen.4:8-12). Placed under a curse by God, he became a fugitive and a vagabond.

As man multiplied in number so did his sins! There came the “Point of No Return,” recorded in Fen.6:6-7! God destroyed the world, then estimated to be up to 2 billion souls! Out of which only eight souls were saved! Sodom and the plains of Gomorrah were destroyed for sin. The record of the destruction of Sodom is found in (Gen.19). The reasons for this destruction, (Lev.18:22) was know in Abraham’s time! Ham, one of Noah’s sons was cursed for making sport of his father’s nakedness while drunk. Jacob’s son, Joseph, while in slavery in Egypt, was approached by his master’s wife for extra marital sex on her part. Joseph’s answer was, “how then can I do this great wickedness, and Sin against God” (Gen.39:9)?

These examples are just a small portion of those that could be given. These are to show that list of 31 laws taken from the “Book of Moses” had to pre-exist at the time of Moses, with the exception of the Passover.
Deut.4:12-13 (He commanded you to perform, even Ten Commandments).
Deut.5:22 (And He added no more, and He wrote them in two tables of stones).
Deut.10:1-4 (Hew out two tables of stone, then make thee an ark of wood).
Ex.24:12 (I will give thee tables of stone, a law, which I have written).
Let us establish the fact from the Bible that there were Two separate laws given at Mt. Sinai in the day of Moses. God declared these Precepts with a great voice and all the assembly of Israel heard them. God wrote this law on two tables of stone with His Own Finger. These Ten Precepts were a complete law; God “added no more” and God called them, a “law which I have written.” Moses himself placed this law, written on two tables of stone by the finger of God, in the Ark. Moses broke the first tables, but God wrote the same words on the second tables of stone and Moses placed the second tables of stone in the ark as God commanded. There we have on law, the Ten Commandments, placed in the Ark by the hand of Moses, after being written by God Himself on two tables of stone.

Ex.24:3-8 (And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord in a book).
2Chron.34:14 (The priest found a book of the law, given by the hand of Moses).
John1:17 (For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ).
Gal.3:10 (Cursed is every one that continueth not which is written in the book).
Gal3:9 (It was added because of transgressions, till the seed (Christ) should come).