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McFatty -> RE: Which Ten Commandments? (5/12/2008 11:32:44 AM)
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You know, I did read it. Maybe I'm just not as attuned to the symbolism or the references in the Old Testament. When I read the Bible, I usually take it for what it says.
In Exodus 34, God tells Moses to cut some tablets, then He gives Moses a speech including ten fairly distinct commandments. After that speech, this is what the Bible says:
"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.' So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments." - Exodus 34:27-28
Perhaps I'm clueless and missing a whole heap, but after lots of words, the LORD says "Write down these words." He then equates these specific words with His covenant. The following verse tells how Moses wrote these words of the covenant, and calls them, again specifically, the Ten Commandments. So I still fail to see how, in your words, "the Bible does not say that the words written in the 34th are the Ten!" It seems to say just that.
Please, in all seriousness, enlighten me as to what I'm missing.
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