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Originally Posted by HaRaAYaH
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Originally Posted by John Kesler
The question, though, is if the text claims that Exodus 34 is a version of the ten commandments.
As the Jewish Study Bible-- quoted by me in the link above--acknowledges, "in the immediate context he wrote is most naturally construed as referring to Moses and the terms of the covenant as referring to the terms mentioned in vv. 11-26." |
If you read the text, it doesn't say those are the ten commandments. |
Sure it does, since the covenant is defined as the ten commandments (v:28), and as Jeffrey H. Tigay points out (in the quote from The Jewish Study Bible), the terms of the covenant are most naturally understood as those mentioned in vv. 11-26.
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Originally Posted by HaRaAYaH
It says the 10 commandments were written on the tablets and there are way more than 10 commandments in that little section.
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And this would make the Exodus-34 commandments different from the "official" ten commandments how? As you know, there is no agreement among Catholics, Protestants, and Jews about how the "ten" commandments should be enumerated. Marc Zvi Brettler writes in
How To Read The Bible, page 64, with my emphasis:
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Both of the commonly used terms, Decalogue and the Ten Commandments, follow the tradition of Exodus and Deuteronomy in insisting that this text must be divided into ten sections. This most likely reflects a notion of ten as a number expressing perfection. Yet, the Decalogue comprises as many as thirteen separate statements...
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Also, the Exodus-34 commandments can, when given the same latitude afforded the Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 versions,
be divided into ten commandments, too.
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1. You may not worship any other god, because YHWH, whose name is Jealous One, is a jealous God. (14a)
2. You may not make molten gods for yourselves. (17)
3. Every firstborn human or animal belongs to God. (19a)
4. No one may appear before God without an offering. (20c)
5. You can work six days, but on the seventh day you may not work. (21a)
6. You must observe the feast of weeks, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering. (23)
7. You may not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened. (25a)
8. The Passover sacrifice must not remain until the morning. (25b)
9. You must bring the best of the first fruits of the soil to the house of Yahweh your God. (26a)
10. You may not boil a kid in its mother's milk. (26b; also 23:19 and Deuteronomy 14:21)
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