The stone features 20 lines of text, which closely follow the verses from the Bible, common to both Jewish and Christian traditions. However, only nine of the 10 commandments from Exodus are included, the missing one being: “Thou shalt not take the name ...

Next month, the auction house will offer the oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments, dating back to 300 to 800 C.E. The 1,500-year-old artifact is expected to fetch up to $2 million during the single-lot sale on December 18.

It’s heading to the land of milk and money. We could see a bidding war of biblical proportions. A 1,500-year-old stone tablet engraved with the oldest known inscription of the Ten Commandments will hit the auction block at Sotheby’s New York next month.

Sotheby's will sell the oldest inscribed tablet of the Ten Commandments in a single-lot sale in December. The 115-pound, two-foot tall marble tablet is approximately 1,500 years old and inscribed in Paleo-Hebrew script.