on: I was reading Exodus and got confused regarding the 10 commandments. The tablets containing the commandments I’m familiar with were smashed by Moses. Later a whole different set appear to have been writing. What commandments were actually delivered to the Israelites?
: You are right that the ten commandments that were said to the people of Israel at Mount Sinai by the Creator and from Moses, are the ones written on the two tablets of the Covenant. As stated in the Torah in The Book of Deuteronomy (chapter 5. 19), אֶֽת־הַדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֡לֶּה דִּבֶּר֩ ה’ אֶל־כָּל־קְהַלְכֶ֜ם בָּהָ֗ר מִתּ֤וֹךְ הָאֵשׁ֙ הֶֽעָנָ֣ן וְהָֽעֲרָפֶ֔ל ק֥וֹל גָּד֖וֹל וְלֹ֣א יָסָ֑ף וַֽיִּכְתְּבֵ֗ם עַל־שְׁנֵי֙ לֻחֹ֣ת אֲבָנִ֔ים וַֽיִּתְּנֵ֖ם אֵלָֽי However, it is important to know that in the two tablets both the first and the second, the Ten Commandments were written and there is no difference between them. As stated in the Torah in The Book of Deuteronomy (chapter 10 verse 4) וַיִּכְתֹּ֨ב עַֽל־הַלֻּחֹ֜ת כַּמִּכְתָּ֣ב הָרִאשׁ֗וֹן אֵ֚ת עֲשֶׂ֣רֶת הַדְּבָרִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר דִּבֶּר֩ ה’ אֲלֵיכֶ֥ם בָּהָ֛ר מִתּ֥וֹךְ הָאֵ֖שׁ בְּי֣וֹם הַקָּהָ֑ל וַיִּתְּנֵ֥ם ה’ אלָֽי. Despite the aforesaid, I mentioned in the sources, some minor differences between the appearing in the first ten commandments and the seconds, such as that in the first panels it was said to ‘remember the Sabbath day for his sanctity’ and in the second tablets it was said to ‘the Sabbath’s reserved’, and for this rabbi Shlomo Elkabetz corrected in a poem “lechah Dodi” reserved and remembered in one speech we played to the special one. Sources and Scores
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