There aren’t ten! there are hundreds. They just kept tacking them on to get folk to do what they wanted.

“And there is no agreement on which ten of the many are “the” ten. The phrase “ten commandments” appears in Exodus 34 and in Deuteronomy 10, which is a reference, but not a list. The strange thing is that the line about Moses writing on the (new) tablets “the ten commandments” is preceded by a list of totally different orders, such as “you shall keep the feast of the unleavened bread”. The familiar list is given earlier in Exodus 20, except that it is never there called “the Ten Commandments” and there is no mention of tablets until 11 chapters and 600-some commandments later.”

10 Awkward Facts about the Ten Commandments - Incredulous

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Context: Catholicvote’s “Top 10  Awkward Facts About the Atheist Monument” See also Hemant Mehta’s rejoinder. 10 Awkward Facts about the…