Why are there different versions of the 10 Commandments?
Whenever I google it, I will either get a list where the second Commandment is to not use the Lord's name in vain; or it will be not to create false idols; or it will be to not wear any graven images, and if its one of the last two, the third one will be to not use the Lord's name in vain.
Because of that, I have to rule out translation problems.
Some lists include not coveting the neighbor's wife along with not coveting his stuff. Others have wife on her own commandment.
Also, is the New Testament just a rewrite of the Old Testament? ..or are they two totally different books with totally different stories in each one? If thats the case, does the Old Testament allude to the New Testament at all? Is Jesus Christ mentioned in both books?
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The set of laws inscribed on the second set of tablets that Moses brought back from his third trip up the mountain, listed in Exodus 34:28 and Deuteronomy 4:13 (a retelling of Exodus 34), is the only set called the Ten Commandments. It is quite revealing to read Exodus 34: “And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest. And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai…”
The final authorized, edited and proofed version of the Ten Commandments:
1. Thou shalt worship no other god.
2. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
3. The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep.
4. Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest.
5. Thou shalt observe the feast of weeks.
6. Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren appear before the Lord God.
7. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven.
8. Neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left until the morning.
9. The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God.
10. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
@BlueSkyKing There is also the complication of quoting from a translation commissioned by a paranoid schizophrenic who literally believed demons would kidnap him.
@BlueSkyKing wow! Ive never heard of most of these. What are their purpose? They seem very specific, not so much for the masses. Where are they written? Old testament? I realize you said Exodus and Deuteronomy. But i wasn't raised with any religion. I dont know which book those came from.
I guess the one about no molten gods is the one about false idols on other lists?
I guess the one about no molten gods is the one about false idols on other lists?
I think you missed the joke. Joseph and Jesus were carpenters (wood workers). In the Old Testament wood workers created idols out of wood. And, in the end, the Jesus character became an idol on a wooden cross.
2 Chronicles 24:18 (NKJV) = "Therefore they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and served wooden images and idols; and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem because of their trespass."
Hosea 4:12 (NKJV) = "My people ask counsel from their wooden idols, And their staff informs them. For the spirit of harlotry has caused them to stray, And they have played the harlot against their God."
@Diotrephes no. I really didn't miss the joke. That was my whole reason for the post. ..its why i discovered (for me) that there were different versions of the 10 Commandments. ..JC is also quite a graven image too, isn't he?
I decided not to mention those discrepancies out of respect to all who were so generous with their time and sharing their wisdom.
Another joke is how the ones who brutally murdered JC, became the most stonch supporters of his
I wonder what the devil has been up to these past two millennia? What if he has been slowly persuading mankind to break God's heart
