Just heard this on Jeopardy tonight but they said Sapphire. Never heard of that before. Anyone know a scripture to support that or as I am thinking probably an amplification made in recent centuries?
2007-12-13 14:25:04 · 18 answers · asked by genghis1947 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What an interesting question ... and no, the Bible does not state that it was sapphire but the Jewish Talmud says so
wikipedia says:
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According to traditional teachings of Judaism in the Talmud, they were made of blue sapphire stone as a symbolic reminder of the sky, the heavens, and ultimately of God's throne.
The tablets are popularly described as semi-flat rounded off rectangles but this understanding has little basis in religious tradition. According to rabbinic tradition, they were perfect cubes, with sharp corners. Also according to tradition, the words were not engraved on the surface, but rather were bored fully through the stone.
(At least) two miracles are mentioned in connection with the tablets: even though they were bored fully through the stone, and you would expect the reverse side to be a mirror image, it was not, and both sides appeared normally.
Since the letters were bored fully through the stone, the inner part of the letters (for example ס or ם) were not supported by anything, yet the unsupported stone remained in position.
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Thanks for a very interesting question!
EDIT: Something else that I find very interesting is that the tradition seems to be that the SECOND set of tablets were the ones made of sapphire, not the first set that were broken as a sign of the broken covenant when they worshipped the gold calf. So that tells me that the thinking was that the replacement covenant that God gave as a gift in the face of Israel's adultery against Him was a heavenly (represented by the blue) gift representative of a heavenly covenant and a heavenly kingdom.
God bless you!
2007-12-13 14:31:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
bear in mind that punctuation and verse numbers are a fashionable invention further to the Bible for the benefit of learn and so on, those weren't in any respect area of the unique texts. As such, once you study those verses they are asserting to no longer make a picture and not serve them. people who venerate in the previous comparable to Christ or a saint do no longer serve the saint nor comparable to them or Christ, so as that they do no longer destroy this commandment. the image is in uncomplicated terms a illustration of the the guy in question purely as in case you have been to have a photograph of your loved ones, you like the guy no longer the photograph that represents them. If the image grew to become into misplaced or destroyed the challenge of the image is unhurt. don't get caught up in each and all the anti-catholic propaganda via people who've deviated farther from the unique faith further than any branch of the catholic church ever has, in case you doubt this, purely study the writings of the early church and spot purely how a techniques cutting-side gatherings have deviated from that unique faith.
2016-12-31 10:19:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi.....
More importantly my friend......
What language was used!??
Because the Judaic/Hebrew written form, had not been invented yet!!!
All those films and pictures/paintings showing the ten commandments carved in Hebrew????
It seems highly probable, that 'if' the ten commandments 'were' carved on stone (probably granite!)...
The actual language used, would be Egyptian hieroglyphs!!
This would seem the logical answer, as this 'was' the only real widely written form back then and we presume that the people (exodus) and Moses himself, would be allowed to read them!!
Moses was brought up in the Egyptian court/palace, so this would also make sense!!
2007-12-13 22:44:43 · answer #3 · answered by Paul222@England 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You know I don't think so, I was on mountain Sinai all the way up and as they told me the whole story about what happened I don't recall ever heard about the material of the stone. It's seems impossible to me though because that mountain is in the middle of the desert, so all I can say is that I will research.
2007-12-13 14:30:13 · answer #4 · answered by nomorecapri 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you are implying rock, I think that there was a rock involved when the 10 commandments were forged...there was no doubtedly smoke also.
2007-12-13 14:28:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Imaginary.
2007-12-13 14:28:31 · answer #6 · answered by Nunya B 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Pyrite.
2007-12-13 14:27:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes it is blue saphire
2007-12-13 14:38:50 · answer #8 · answered by NavisDream 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Rosetta Stones, they've been translated in every language....Rofl.
2007-12-13 14:29:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't remember any scripture that states that. But honey would you please remove the hat, it makes it hard to see your eyes.
2007-12-13 14:42:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋