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>>>What is provided below is an explanation and comparison of the various versions
of the "Ten Commandments". I'm providing this because of all the hoopla about
posting one of these in various government facilities. But this appears to be a
furthering of the religious mythe that uses information to satisfy a predetermined
need but doesn't necessarily realte directly back to the true sources. This was
addressed in Peter MacWilliams' book close to the back. A<>E<>R<<<
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Which Ten
Commandments?
by Cliff Walker and Jyoti Shankar
...clip... [miscellaneous linques to other documentation. Go to the site to view if
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wish]
One of the best-kept secrets in the discussions on the Ten Commandments
concerns the fact that (according to the story) Moses smashed the first set of tables
in a fit of anger, because the Israelites chose to worship the golden calf. (That this
would happen or would be told casts doubt on the whole Exodus tale, but we will not
cover that here.)
As the tale goes, Moses smashed the tables of stone, and God said he'd make a
new set of tables containing "the words that were on the first" (Ex. 34:1). However,
as we see on the second page, the second Ten Commandments in no way resemble
the first set. To popularize this knowledge is to knock the wind out of this entire
move
to place "The" Ten Commandments in our schools.
Positive Atheism encourages readers to print out and distribute the PDF file of the
two center pages of our July, 1999, issue, and distribute it far and wide. (If you
don't
have Adobe Acrobat, you can download it for free. If you don't use Acrobat, the
contents are reproduced in HTML 2.0 below.) Although we know that the main
premise of theism is flawed, many Americans haven't thought much on these things.
Thus, to show biblical discrepancies can, with many people, go further than any
discussion of the main premises of theism.
A discrepancy not mentioned is that between the original Ten Commandments of
Exodus 20 and the recap listed in Deuteronomy 5. Exodus 20 requires keeping the
Sabbath because "in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that
in them is, and rested the seventh day." But in Deuteronomy, Jews must "remember
that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee
out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy
God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day." Nothing is said about God resting
after the six days it took to create the universe.
Which Ten Commandments?
Protestant
Catholic
Hebrew
1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
1. I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.
1. I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house
of slavery.
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that
is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the
earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy
God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the
third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And showing mercy unto thousands
of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
2. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
2. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven
image, nor any manner of likeness, of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in
the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; Thou shalt not bow down
unto them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them
that hate Me; And showing mercy unto the thousandth generation of them that love
Me and keep My commandments.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold
him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
3. Remember thou keep the Sabbath Day.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold
him guiltless that taketh His name in vain.
4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all
thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not
do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy
maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days
the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the
seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
4. Honor thy Father and thy Mother.
4. Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all
thy work. But the seventh day is the sabbath in honour of the Lord thy God; on it thou
shalt not do any work, neither thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant nor
thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; For in six
days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and
rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed
it.
5. Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which
the Lord thy God giveth thee.
5. Thou shalt not kill.
5. Honour thy father and thy mother; in order that thy days may be prolonged upon
the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
6. Thou shalt not kill.
6. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
6. Thou shalt not kill.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
7. Thou shalt not steal.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8. Thou shalt not steal.
8. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
8. Thou shalt not steal.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
9. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's
wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing
that is thy neighbor's.
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's goods.
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's
wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing
that is thy neighbour's.
King James Bible, issued by the American Bible Society.
Catholic Catechism by Peter Cardinal Gasparri, "published with Ecclesiastical
approval" and bearing the imprimatur of Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop, New
York. P. J. Kenedy & Sons, 1932.
Bloch Publishing Company, New York, 1922.
Which Ten Commandments?
First Tables of Stone (Ex. 20)
("which Moses didst break")
Second Tables of Stone (Ex. 34)
("the words that were on the first")
1. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house
of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me.
1. Thou shalt worship no other god (For the Lord is a jealous god).
2. You shall not make for yourself a graven image. You shall not bow down to them
or serve them.
2. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
3. The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep in the month when the ear is on the
corn.
4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
4. All the first-born are mine.
5. Honor your father and your mother.
5. Six days shalt thou work, but on the seventh thou shalt rest.
6. You shall not kill.
6. Thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, even of the first fruits of the wheat
harvest,
and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
7. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread.
8. You shall not steal.
8. The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning.
9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
9. The first of the first fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring unto the house of the
Lord
thy God.
10. You shall not covet.
10. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.
Adapted from Microsoft Bookshelf 98
K. Budde, History of Ancient Hebrew Literature
Ten Punishments
(Let's post these in the schoolroom!)
1. Ex. 22:20: He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be
utterly destroyed.
2. Lev. 24:16: And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put
to death.
3. Ex. 31:15: Whosoever doeth any work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to
death.
4. Ex. 21:15: He that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
5. Ex. 21:17: He that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
6. Ex. 22:19: Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
7. Lev. 20:13: If a man lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have
committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death.
8. Lev. 20:10: And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, the
adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.
9. Mark 16:16: He that believeth not, shall be damned.
10. Mal. 2:1-4: And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. If you will not
hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, ... behold, I will
corrupt
your seed, and spread dung upon your faces.
Compiled by Jyoti Shankar,
Bubbles Online Magazine.
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