So, you think you know the 10 commandments?

Question

You've probably never broiled a kid goat in its mothers milk, but did you know it would be in violation of the 10th commandment if you did? According to Ex 34 these are the commandments on the 2nd tablet of stone, but they are the words that were on the first set.


1. Thou shalt worship no other god (For the Lord is a jealous god).
2. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
3. The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep in the month when the ear is on the corn.
4. All the first-born are mine.
5. Six days shalt thou work, but on the seventh thou shalt rest.
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. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread.
8. The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning.
9. The first of the first fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God.
10. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother’s milk.

"Apparently, the Israelites had trouble putting the 10 commandments into practice". That's pretty funny, Terry K, they couldn't obey "thou shalt not kill" or "thou shalt not steal", so they just dropped them? Jews (and others) still seem to have a lot of trouble with these commandments. But that's not what it says in the bible, is it? it says "I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables". I guess, like me, you don't believe the bible? But at least you found one of the other 2 sets of commandments in it. Tell you what, provide the source of your explanation, or admit you made it up, and I'll give you best answer.

Answer 1

Hi, I'm Jim the agnostic. I have been doing yahoo answers several months and reading the Bible a while now. One of the things I do is read something disturbing and post it to see what reaction I get. Its usually the same one you get. Most people don't know the Bible. I'll post something like: Did God say you can't eat from every tree in the garden? Which is a quote right out of Genesis 3 verse 1. Mostly with this one theres a lot of people who quote Genesis 2.16 cause they get it.

Whats sad and funny is those who say how dare you mock God the Bible doesn't say that!

Indeed I clicked on your question and see you made reference to Exodus 34. Ahh yes in going to Bible Gateway I see that indeed most of what you have posted in in FACT IN THE BIBLE.

I read the answers above me of people saying no there are other acceptable commandments.

Critical thinking skills are shot with sheeple.

A plain reading of Revelation 7.1 and Revelation 20.8 teach us the Earth is flat. Or we can say its a metaphor for a map.

Genesis 1.26 and 27 and Genesis 2.7 teach in a plain English God made man with no intermediate species.

Call me nuts I think it a metaphor for God giving people souls and he still used evolution from one cell through millions of years if God exists at all.

Leviticus 11:7-8 teach us to not eat pork and Lev 11:9-12 teach us that eating shrimp is an abomination. Its all there. Leviticus 18.22 says gay sex is an abomination.

Matthew 15 I think is where Jesus says it doesnt matter what you eat cause it comes out and it doesnt defile you . . . but sexual immorrality does.

Leviticus 25.44 gives conditions for owning slaves, they have to be foreigners. Jesus quotes sprinkled in the NT say he comes for free man and slave. He doesn't say he freed the slaves.

There is some chapter and verse of 1 Chronicles where God says pi is the number 3.

And don't forget in Matthew 15:21-27 where Jesus calls a black woman a dog.
21 Then Jesus went out from there and departed to the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22 And behold, a woman of Canaan came from that region and cried out to Him, saying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely demon-possessed.”
23 But He answered her not a word.
And His disciples came and urged Him, saying, “Send her away, for she cries out after us.”
24 But He answered and said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
25 Then she came and worshiped Him, saying, “Lord, help me!”
26 But He answered and said, “It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.”
27 And she said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”
28 Then Jesus answered and said to her, “O woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.

The Bible is messed up isn't it. Clearly the authors are ignorant of science, racists, homophobes, xenophobic, controlling sexists.

Is the Bible really the fingerprints of God?

no, clearly not

Answer 2

There were some thing like 370 written commandments.The ten have been immortalized because those were the ones God spoke aloud to those of the exodus.They could not bear his voice and sent Mose to be an intercessor,this set the stage for priests and temples.
Christ tells that none are saved by the law,it was given to convict men of their sin.Of all the law if you keep two you will satisfy the Father.
Love God with all your heart and soul.
Love thy neighbor as ye love thy self.

Answer 3

Yup, concerning to the dimensions of it from the previous testomony in a Christian Bible. notwithstanding a Christian by using faith, i'm no longer a large beleiver in some bloke construction a boat to residing house each and every species of critter the two. Oh, am I banished with the aid of fact I covet my neighbours oxen ? Moses exchange into in all likelihood an outstanding chap, so upon greatest his followers out of slavery, theory a sequence of policies could be a competent thought. very like Gordon Brown. Er, Jesus hadn't arrived on the scene to place Moses perfect. Bob

Answer 4

You might want to take a look at the following:

the first set of tablets read:
Exo 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Exo 20:4 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:
Exo 20:5 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;
Exo 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Exo 20:7 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.
Exo 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exo 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Exo 20:10 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:
Exo 20:11 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.
Exo 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Exo 20:13 Thou shalt not kill.
Exo 20:14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Exo 20:15 Thou shalt not steal.
Exo 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Exo 20:17 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 ***, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.


concerning the second set of tablets we read in Exo 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." So, both sets of tablets were the same.

What you suggest as the second set of writings was actually taken from the Mosaic Law. This law was given some time later. It is spread out over the end of Exodus, Leviticus and is even found in Deuteronomy. But, it is not the "10 commandments".

The 10 commandments can be broken down into two sections. the first 5 commandments deal with man's relationship with God. The second 5 commandments deal with man's relationship with man.

While the Mosiac Law can be broken down in this same way, it is not the 10 commandments nor is it part of the 10 commandments. However, it does relate to the 10 commandments. The Mosiac Law is an explanation of how the 10 commandments should appear in everyday life. Apparently, the Israelites had trouble putting the 10 commandments into practice so God made it "easier" for them by spelling it out. In actuallity, they would have been better off adhearing to the 10 commandments because the Mosiac Law was much harder to follow and was much less forgiving.

Answer 5

This means that Mel Brooks was actually telling part of history in the movie: History of the World Part 1? When it shows Moses dropping and breaking the second tablet of stone?

Answer 6

Israel was not to cook a goat in its mother's milk not because it was a pagan practice, but because it was inappropriate to combine that which was a symbol of life (mother's milk) with the death of that for which it was meant to give life, especially in the context of the Festival of Tabernacles

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Eph 2:8

Answer 7

The boiling the kid in it's mothers milk think is in the Bible but it is not part of the ten commandments

Answer 8

these commandants r not created by the jesus ,his only command was -first u enter into the kingdom of your heart,rest every thing follows u-but people seems to misunderstood his message,he asked u to take commands from within /yr heart,but nobody dare to take from it,as extrovert life will take u away from the compny of yr heart.

Answer 9

Jesus said when he healed on sunday that people were no longer to follow the 10 commandments but instead follow him.
that means if you follow them you arnt obaying Christ so you arn't a cristian!!!

Answer 10

those may or may not be in the bible, bu t those in whole are not the Ten commandments as acepted.