Friday, March 02, 2007

THE OTHER SET OF COMMANDMENTS

We are all familiar with the Charlton Heston version but there's another set of Commandments in the Bible that are rarely mentioned. These supposedly supercede the first 10:

EXODUS CHAPTER 34

1 Now the LORD said to Moses, "Cut out for yourself two R1083 stone tablets like the former ones, and I R1084 will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets which you shattered.
2 "So be ready by morning, and come up in the morning to Mount R1085 Sinai, and present F727 yourself there to Me on the top of the mountain.
3 " R1086 No man is to come up with you, nor let any man be seen anywhere F728 on the mountain; even the flocks and the herds may not graze in front of that mountain."
4 So he cut out two R1087 stone tablets like the former ones, and Moses rose up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and he took two stone tablets in his hand.
5 The R1088 LORD descended in the cloud and stood there with him as he F729 called upon the name of the LORD.
6 Then the LORD passed by in front of him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, compassionate R1089 and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth; F730
7 who keeps R1090 lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will R1091 by no means leave {the guilty} unpunished, visiting R1092 the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations."
8 Moses made haste to F731 R1093 bow low toward the earth and worship.
9 He said, " R1094 If now I have found favor in Your sight, O Lord, I pray, let the Lord go along in our midst, even though the F732 R1095 people are so obstinate, and pardon R1096 our iniquity and our sin, and take R1097 us as Your own possession." F733

10 Then God F734 said, "Behold, I R1098 am going to make a covenant. Before all your people I R1099 will perform miracles which have not been produced F735 in all the earth nor among any of the nations; and all the people among F736 whom you live will see the working of the LORD, for it is a fearful thing that I am going to perform with you.
11 "Be sure to observe what I am commanding you this day: behold, I R1100 am going to drive out the Amorite before you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite.
12 " R1101 Watch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst.
13 " R1102 But {rather,} you are to tear down their altars and smash their {sacred} pillars and cut down their Asherim F737 R1103
14 --for you R1104 shall not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God--
15 otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they would play the harlot with their gods and sacrifice R1105 to their gods, and someone might R1106 invite you to F738 eat of his sacrifice,
16 and you R1107 might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might play the harlot with their gods and cause your sons {also} to play the harlot with their gods.
17 " R1108 You shall make for yourself no molten gods.
18 "You shall observe the
R1109 Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven R1110 days you are to eat unleavened bread, as F739 I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month R1111 of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.
19 " R1112 The first offspring from every womb belongs to Me, and all your male livestock, the first offspring from cattle F740 and sheep.
20 " R1113 You shall redeem with a lamb the first F741 offspring from a donkey; and if you do not redeem {it,} then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem all R1114 the firstborn of your sons. None F742 R1115 shall appear before Me empty-handed.
21 "You shall work six R1116 days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; {even} during plowing time and harvest you shall rest.
22 "You shall celebrate the R1117 Feast of Weeks, {that is,} the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
23 " R1118 Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, F743 the God of Israel.
24 "For I will drive F744 R1119 out nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no man shall covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God. 25 " R1120 You shall not offer F745 the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, nor R1121 is the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover to be F746 left over until morning.
26 "You shall bring the R1122 very first of the first fruits of your soil into the house of the LORD your God. "You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."

27 Then the LORD said to Moses, " R1123 Write down F747 these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a R1124 covenant with you and with Israel."

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