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Redundant Commandments
Nine of the Ten Commandments appear outside of the Decalogue, in some cases frequently, in other parts of the Pentateuch. The first two commandments, “You shall not have other gods…, you shall not make for yourself any sculpture or image” and “you shall not bow down to them and you shall not worship them,” are paralleled in various biblical codes and legal passages:
The Decalogue—Exodus 20:1–17
And God spoke all these words, saying, 2I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3you shall have no other gods before me.
What Makes the Ten Commandments Different?
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The Book of J
Harold Bloom Translated from the Hebrew by David Rosenberg (New York: Grove-Weidenfeld, 1990) 335 pp., $21.95
The Book of Numbers
How much?
The biblical terms “shekels” and “talents” may be unfamiliar, but their uses in ancient times are perfectly up-to-date even today: public-works funding, purchases, fees and bribes. Originally shekels and talents were units of weight. Stone weights in multiples or fractions of a shekel were used to weight quantities of gold or silver. The shekel in Israelite times averaged about 11.4 grams (0.4 ounce); a talent equaled 3,000 shekels.
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