That was not the point though. The point was that I was betting that no-one actually knew. Bible scholars know them off by heart and can recite the story of Moses climbing Mount Sinai and receiving the commandments on two stone tablets and reading them aloud and breaking them seeing the people worshiping a false idol and breaking the first five of the commandments. Moses then went back up the mountain and had them re-carved into new tablets and coming back down.
That is how people remember it, but it never happened that way. No I mean, that is not the story in the bible. The story in the bible is that Moses goes up the mountain and comes down the mountain with the Ten Commandments, but before reading them he finds them worshiping the Golden Calf and he then breaks the tablets before reading them, therefore God tells him that he must make two more tablets and to repeat the process and God says that he will put the EXACT same words on the new tablets.
Between the two trips to the mountain, Moses destroys the Golden Calf and sets up the Ark of the Covenant, for which there are no Ten Commandments to put in, because they were destroyed, but Moses gives everyone the words that everyone who belongs to the three religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, treats AS the Ten Commandments. These commandments are states as:
I am the Lord your God who has taken you out of the land of Egypt.
You shall have no other gods but me.
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
You shall remember the Sabbath and keep it Holy.
Honor your mother and father.
You shall not murder.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness.
You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.
Moses then goes back up the mountain and the tablets are re-written and Moses comes back down and reads the tablets once with very little fanfare and puts them into the Ark, never to be seen again. From Exodus 30, 14-26:
You shall have no other gods before Me.
You shall make for yourself no molten gods.
You shall keep the feast of unleaven bread.
You shall work for six days but on the seventh day you shall rest.
You shall observe the feast of weeks.
Three times a year you shall bring all your male children before the Lord.
You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven.
Neither shall the feast of the Passover be left until the morning.
The first of the first fruits of your land shall be brought unto the house of the Lord your God.
You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
You say, "What?!?" I know that it is hard to reconcile what it says in the bible with what you were taught, but it is quite clearly stated. In Exodus 34, 28 "and he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments."
I want to rush out and confront the lie to all the priests to see what they say, for since they are all bible scholars, they must know that it is true. It must be that the second set of commandments, the true ones, did not roll off the tongue as well as the ones that stated: thy shall not, murder, steal, lie, covet, have sex outside of marriage. The only thy shall not in the second is about boiling a baby goat in its mother's milk, which means please boil a kid in its aunt's milk. The second makes more sense in the contest of God, he seems to be more concerned about how people make sacrifices to him than what they do in their off time.
Anyways i find it funny that the learned biblical scholars teach a set of commandments that breaks their own ninth commandment.
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