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Re: The Ten Commandments, The Golden Calf, and The Ark of the Covenant
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lugnet.build.ancient
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Fri, 20 Dec 2002 03:39:43 GMT
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In lugnet.build.ancient, William R. Ward writes:
> Wow ... some great stuff here. I particularly love the cloud (and lightning)
> and the golden calf. The maxifig hands for ears was a brilliant stroke. And
> the tablets too. Great stuff.
Thanks, Bill. And many thanks for pointing out typos and broken links. I
will fix those as soon as possible.
> Only thing is, and I've noticed this before, is that's a rather nonstandard
> Bible you're using. Some of those verses are quite different from the ones I
> learned as a kid in Sunday school. The 10 commandments I learned didn't say
> anything about the punishments for violation, and they were phrased rather
> differently in some cases... What translation are you using, and why did you
> pick that one?
I am generally using a translation called the New Jerusalem Bible which I
like for its balance of readable modern English and faithfulness in
translation to the original Hebrew. I don't think it's a particularly
"non-standard" translation, but then again perhaps I don't know what you
mean by that.
I think what you are noticing here is that when I put together the Ten
Commandments story, I drew from different passages than most retellings of
the Ten Commandments story. The intent was to show that, contrary to how
most people think of the Ten Commandments these days, they were very harsh
laws, and the penalty for breaking any of them was almost always death.
They tend to leave that part out when they hang the Ten Commandments up in
schools.
In some cases where God dictated the punishments for breaking the
commandments in a slightly later passage, I have attached it immediatley
following the commandment itself, and in other cases, I am simply giving the
full text of the commandment where most versions of the Ten Commandments
story truncate them. You can see where I am doing what by looking at the
verse numbers given with each Bible passage.
-Rev. Smith
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