Why are the ten commandments considered an influential set of rules

What are the purpose of the Ten Commandments in the Bible? The ten laws given to Moses and Israel on Mt Sinai served several purposes. To Israel the law revealed the nature of God. When God issued the law he declared from the Creators infinite wisdom what He valued as just, righteous and godly. And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets."