BIBLE HISTORY DAILY:
Understanding Israel’s 10 Commandments. Are the 10 Commandments really a moral code? (Shawna Dolansky). A nice overview of the Decalogue from a scholarly perspective. Everyone agrees it contains ten commandments, but different traditions divide them up differently.
I have commented on the meaning of the sixth commandment (prohibiting "murder," sort of)
here. There is more on the (Samaritan) stone decalogue tablet, pictured in the essay,
here and links.
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