--- In [email protected], "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@...> wrote: <snip> > For example, in the Torah, the tablets of the ten commandments > were destroyed. God then replaced them. Except the commandments > on the new tablets were different, e.g., 'Thou shalt not boil a > calf in its mothers milk' was one of the restored commandments.
Nitpick: As I understand it, although this one was included in the Covenant Code given to Moses by God at Sinai along with the tablets, it was not one of the Ten engraved on either set of tablets. It appears in Exodus 23:19 as one of the many laws of Kashrut; also in Exodus 34:26 and Deuteronomy 14:21: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_and_meat_in_Jewish_law The Ten Commandments are listed in Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21. The commandments in each are the same, just worded slightly differently: http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Ten_Commandments But I don't believe the two listings represent the two sets of tablets; as far as I can determine without looking up the context, they're just two different wordings of the final Ten. Apparently some biblical scholars maintain that the Covenant Code was originally said to have been on the tablets, but by the time the text was finalized, it no longer was. The history is complicated: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant_code
