Ten Commandments

The first time Moses came down from Mount Sinai with commandments, he merely recited a list (Exodus 20:2-17), which is the version most churches today erroneously call the "Ten Commandments," although they were not engraved on stone tablets and are not called commandments
The first set of stone tablets was given to Moses at a subsequent trip up the mountain (Exodus 31:18). In this version of the story, Moses petulantly destroyed those tablets when he saw the people worshipping the golden calf (Exodus 32:19).
So he went back for a replacement. God told Moses: "Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. " (Exodus 34:1) It is this list that is called the "Ten Commandments.
"And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments." (Exodus 34:28). The tenth commandment is: "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk." Exodus 34:26
All three versions are quite different, of course. The final version, according to the Old Testament is:

1. Worship no other gods

2. Do not make cast idols.

3. Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread

4. The first offspring of every womb belongs to Yahweh

5. Observe the Sabbath

6. Celebrate the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Ingathering

7. Three times a year all men shall appear before Yahweh

8. Do not make blood sacrifices with yeast or let the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.

9. Present the best of your initial harvest to Yahweh.

10. Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

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