At least wait for the feathers.

Why do we always resort to humor when the truth becomes to strong to resist?

This discussion has been fruitful in some ways, one way being that God first spoke the Ten Commandments to the people in Exodus 20:1 quoted below:

God then spoke what the Ten Comandments were, which we see written by Moses from verse 2 to verse 17.

This was followed later on by God's writing them, with His own finger, on tablets of stone.

The above verse doesn't specifically use the word Ten Commandments. It is implied, but not specifically stated, therefore, we need to read further.

In Exodus 24:18 we read:

What happened during those 40 days and 40 nights can be read from Exodus 25:1 to Exodus 31:17. What is there is in addition to what was written on two tables of stone as stated in Exodus 31:18 quoted below:

Once again, the above quoted text doesn't specifically state what was written. They are referred here as the two tables of testimony, but not specifically stated as being the Ten Commandments, therefore, we need to read further.

Again, the above text refers to the two tables of stone as the two tables of the testimony, which were broken by Moses in his anger, therefore, we need to read further.

Exodus 34:1 shows that these same tables that were destroyed were to be replaced by God:

And Moses did as the Lord said unto Moses:

This is the first time it specifically says that it was the Ten Commandments that were written on the two tables of stone, which it says were the same words as on the first two tables of stone that Moses had broken in his anger.

In conclusion, that what was written on the first two tables of stone, was also written on the second two tables of stone, namely the Ten Commandments that God spoke to the people in Exodus 20:2-17.

Thanks for that review, Daryl. Now, let's return to the issue at hand. Why is the second copy so different from what we think is the first copy? What are the implications of that fact.

Darius,

We know that the ten commandments were written on the tablets. Deut. 5 says which commandments were written on the tablets. Now, where is it written that the commandments that you call the second set are the ten commandments and that they were written on the tablets?

Rosangela, you are beating around this stuff. You are trying your very best to avoid it. The evidence is before you. If you need to, go over the entire thread again. There has been enough repetition for a lifetime.

Could you please be patient with me and answer the question? Just one verse is enough.

Ex. 34:27, 28.

In my review, as you call it, in reference to Exodus 34:28 I said the following:

Darius,

After what you call the second set, “then the LORD said to Moses, ‘Write these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.’ So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments” (Ex. 34:7,8).

You said it doesn’t matter who wrote on the tablets of stone, but this provides the answer to the question you are asking. V. 7 says God commanded Moses to write the commands mentioned in Ex. 34, and v. 8 says that the ten commandments were written on the tablets. Now, who wrote on the tablets? God (as Deut. 10:1-5 says) or Moses? If it was God, then the commands God told Moses to write are not the ten commandments. If it was Moses, then you might have a point, but then Moses, in Deuteronomy, would have contradicted what he wrote in Exodus.