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[abigailbrady]

There's a programme on channel 4 tonight about a survey conducted to find out the "new 10 commandments". It is expected to have such things as "Thou shalt protect the environment", and "Thou shalt look after the vulnerable".

But did you know that the ten commandments vary in the different Mosaic traditions?

	Judaism	Catholicism	Protestantism
1	I am your God	I am your God. No other gods. No idols.	I am your God. No other gods.
2	No other gods. No idols.	No taking name in vain.	No idols.
3	No taking name in vain.	Remember the Sabbath (Sunday).	No taking name in vain.
4	Remember the Sabbath (Saturday).	Honour your parents.	Remember the Sabbath (Sunday).
5	Honour your parents.	No killing.	Honour your parents.
6	No murder.	No adultery.	No murder.
7	No adultery.	No stealing.	No adultery.
8	No stealing.	No false witness.	No stealing.
9	No false witness.	No coveting your neighbour's wife.	No false witness.
10.	No coveting.	No coveting your neighbour's house, maidservant, ox, etc.	No coveting.

Thinking about it, if I were an adherent to one of these religions, I would find this program far more offensive than the Jerry Springer opera. Does this make sense to anyone else?

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[arosoff.livejournal.com]

It's not totally bizarre. The Catholics did renumber the Commandments (funnily enough the Jewish version is the original), and part of the Reformation was to change that back. There was a LOT of fuss over the graven images issue, and many Protestants felt the Catholics had tried to obscure it. I was reading a history of the Reformation recently and there was quite a bit on this. I'm not entirely sure why the Catholics renumbered it originally, though.

There are also 2 versions of the 10 Commandments in the Bible. In one version it says "remember the Sabbath day" and in the other it says "guard the Sabbath day".

Also, the Catholics changed the Old Testament canon--they added 6 books which Jews don't consider part of the Bible. Many Protestant sects have gone back to the Jewish canon, considering the added books part of the Apocrypha. They kept the book splits the Catholics had done (Judges, Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, the 12 Prophets), but came up with their own order. So the Jewish Bible has 24 books, the Protestants 39, and the Catholics 45!