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Streamlined version of the 10 Commandments
Thinking about the 10 commandments, I remember the 1981 movie where Mel Brooks was playing Moses (“History of the World, Part I”).
He was coming down the mountain fumbling three stone tablets. He starts speaking, “I have the 15 commandments!”
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Then, one of the tablets falls and crashes. He continues, “I have the 10 commandments!”
Why are there 10 Commandments anyhow? Why not four or 13? The answer is as easy as counting the fingers on your hands!
At any rate, scholars say the 10 Commandments were written 2,700 to 3,800 years ago. Since I am
