Regarding God’s Real Ten Commandments

I bet you think you know what the Ten Commandments are especially since they are given twice, first in Exodus, Chapter 20; then again in Deuteronomy, Chapter 5. But of course Moses broke the tablets upon which those original Ten Commandments were written, so it was back to Square One and let's do it all over again. However, the second set of Ten Commandments, the ones that actually found their way into the Ark of the Covenant, bear little relevance to those original set of inscribed tablets. Somewhere along the line, God changed His mind. So here's the relevant parts of Exodus, Chapter 34 - King James Version (KJV) - which give you the real second and final set of God's Ten Commandments.

Exodus 34: 1 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.

34: 4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.

34: 5 And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord.

34: 14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: [Commandment One]

34: 17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. [Commandment Two]

34: 18 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt. [Commandment Three]

34: 19 All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male. [Commandment Four]

34: 21 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest. [Commandment Five]

34: 22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end. [Commandment Six]

34: 23 Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel. [Commandment Seven]

34: 25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning. [Commandment Eight]

34: 26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. [Commandments Nine and Ten]

34: 27 And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

34: 28 And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

By the way, the immediate above (Exodus 34: 28) is the very first time the phrase “ten commandments” is used in the Bible.

Comments: It's interesting that in both sets of Ten Commandments, the First Commandment, God puts Himself first and foremost. As I've said countless number of times, God's an egomaniac to end all egomaniacs.

Of the grand total of 19 Commandments - both sets - only three are actually adopted as human law in nearly all societies, and those are exclusively from the first set of tablets - the set that Moses broke.