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The only place anything is called "The Ten Commandments" in the bible bears no resemblance to the ten commandments we all hear about. I know there are apologetics to brush away this problem, but it's just another one of those screaming problems of the bible that one only discovers upon reading the bible oneself.

Exodus 34:

17 “Do not make any idols.

18 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt.

19 “The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock. 20 Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn sons.

“No one is to appear before me empty-handed.

21 “Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.

22 “Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the year.[b] 23 Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord, the God of Israel. 24 I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the Lord your God.

25 “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning.

26 “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.

“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

27 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” 28 Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

greyeyed123 7 Sep 7
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Ummmm, what? You are reading the (weird) dietary laws that Orthodox Jews still follow, (and many more)...the actual 10-ish are discussed at length in Exodus, along with the story of Moses breaking the stones containing the first set (while the cat's away...) & going back up the mountain to get more....

I do find it interesting, though, that these 10 are the only 10 anywhere in the Bible (from cover to cover) that calls anything "The Ten Commandments". And they are entirely ignored.

@greyeyed123 They are not in any way "ignored" by Orthodox Jews!

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There are at least three different sets of the laws in the Bible that have at different times been defined as "the" ten commandments, possibly more. The only people who really take the bible seriously, are those who have never read it properly.

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