1690: The 10 Commandments: not all Commandments Jul 31, 2019

The first of the "10 Commandments" for Jews and Catholics is not actually a commandment, per se. To follow-up on the post on the 10 commandments, "I am the L-rd, your G-d" is actually a statement. This is a problem of translation, but what was mistranslated was the notion of 'commandment'. The phrase "10 Commandments" comes from the Hebrew "עשרת הדברים" (aseret ha-d'varim) meaning "the ten words", or "the ten verses". Indeed, the Bible has hundreds of other commandments, so this alternative name is no less specific in some ways.