1689: 10 Commandments: Not Set in Stone Jul 30, 2019

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Even without reading the Bible, people often know about the 10 commandments, but if you ask a Catholic, Protestant, Greek Orthodox or Jewish person etc. what they are, you will get different answers. This is because there are actually 12-14 points that make up the the 10 commandments, but some lines are grouped together. Most interpretations keep the 3 lines about not coveting one's neighbor's A) house B) wife and C) ox (and anything else) as a single commandment, but Catholics and Lutherans have them as two. In fact, the 9th commandment for Catholics is drawn from those 3, but the order from how it is written in in the Bible is changed, putting 'wife' as its own commandment before the other two things not to be coveted. Many Christians also do not consider "I am the Lord, your G-d" a commandment, though it's the first for Jews and Catholics. Moreover, Samaritans have the 10th commandment as "You shall set up these stones, which I command you today, on Mount Gerizim", but no other group considers this to be one of the 10 commandments at all.
For more on modern considerations of the Bible, watch this: https://youtu.be/jTKKSf35LSE


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