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   pbarnrob said, 25 days ago

   Like that’s the first time a quibbler would have arisen…

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   wndrwrthg said, 25 days ago

   Hammurabi never had that problem.

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   Potrzebie said, 25 days ago

   aren’t there supposed to be two tablets? Or was this tablet perforated for ease of separation?

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   BC13 said, 25 days ago

   I think that’s why there were only 10 commandments. Those commandments were dropped.

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   Jim said, 25 days ago

   Hmmm …

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   Richard said, 25 days ago

   Just shut the he** up and deliver the tablets bozo!

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   Kim said, 25 days ago

   Where’s the third tablet?

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   Guilden_NL said, 25 days ago

   Take two tablets in the morning and call me if you don’t feel better……

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   bmonk said, 25 days ago

   Two approaches to law:

   American (English, Common) Law: spell it all out in exquisite, painful detail.

   Roman (Napoleonic, Canon) Law: give the principles and trust the magistrate to adjust for the exceptions to make the legislator’s intent work.

   The Ten Commandments are closer to Roman Law.

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    grazer said, 25 days ago

    Hey, if we were ‘sposed to have some common sense to live by, God would have given us some, right??
    Right.

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 25 days ago

    If one does a careful reading of when Moses received the commandments, each of the stone tablets had writing of both sides and they were identical, too.

    The “10 Commandments” were merely the 10 different categories of the over 600 commandments on each tablet.

    All of the commandments given to Moses were for the Israelites to follow. Non Israelites were not required to live by them.

    The commandments were the written law for the theocratic government of Israel.

    In the New Testament Period, new converts to The Way (the real name for Jesus’ original church) were not required to follow the Mosaic commandments.

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    treered said, 25 days ago

    i think in “history of the world part 1” it shows what happened tot he third tablet. The one he has there splits into two…

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    Wiley said, 25 days ago

    Mr. Doty-
    Can you tell us where that information can be read? That’s quite interesting and I never that before.

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    durtclaw said, 25 days ago

    Hammurabi Plagiarized

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    Dracip said, 25 days ago

    But,didn’t Hammurabi come before the commandments?

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    BC13 said, 25 days ago

    Ah yes, History of the World. That’s where I got the idea.

    Mel Brooks holds up 3 tablets and says “I give you these 15…(drops a tablet, breaking it to pieces)…10 commandments.”

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    cliquegge said, 25 days ago

    I also Mr Doty would be interested in your reference

    A quick search of the old testament does indicate that the tablets were written on both sides - but i can find no reference to 600 commandments anywhere.

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    Furienna said, 24 days ago

    JAD: The early Christians, who weren’t Jewish, weren’t required to follow the entire law of Moses. Especially the diet rules and the rule about circumcision for males were hard for Gentiles to follow. But all Christians, Jews and Gentiles, were still required to follow a few basic rules, like not vorshipping idols and not being sexually inpure. Read chapter 15 of the Acts of the Apostles. So the ten commandments were important to all early Christians, no matter what their background was.

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    Ronshua said, 24 days ago

    Deu 25:11 “When men fight with one another, and the wife of one shall draw near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one attacking him, and shall put out her hand and seize him by the genitals,
    Deu 25:12 then you shall cut off her hand – your eye does not pardon.
    Deterrent Wisdom in the statutes directed as instruction to totally ignorant homeless people .
    How did Wisdom completely render void several pounds of defiled gold ? (the golden calf)

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    flyoverzone said, 19 days ago

    This reinforces one of my dictums that states your quality of life diminishes in direct proportion to the number of attorneys you personally know.