Actually, the Old Testament has three versions of the commandments, each one of different length (Exodus 20, Deuteronomy 5, and the third one I forgot. Fun fact: I learned that at literature lessons in high school, not at any kind of religious lessons). The shorter commandments are the same, but the longer ones differ—maybe it was too difficult even for ancient izraelites to remember them exactly?
Let’s try to make some other points shorter.
Number 10. Thou shalt meekly accept battles lost in pursuit of wars won
Number 7. Thou shalt not cease falsificating thine beliefs
I’m only familiar with the two versions of the commandments given in Exodus and Deuteronomy: I specified Exodus specifically to clarify that distinction, then wound up using an example that’s the same in both of them. Oh well. I’ve never heard of a third, though; can you remember any other context?
I’d expect there to be exactly two versions, for the same reason that there are two creation stories in Genesis: the early books of the Bible are the first written form of a faith with two competing (though closely related!) oral traditions.
Anyway, now that I’ve thought about it more I think this concept would work better as a riff on the book of Proverbs.
Actually, the Old Testament has three versions of the commandments, each one of different length (Exodus 20, Deuteronomy 5, and the third one I forgot. Fun fact: I learned that at literature lessons in high school, not at any kind of religious lessons). The shorter commandments are the same, but the longer ones differ—maybe it was too difficult even for ancient izraelites to remember them exactly?
Let’s try to make some other points shorter.
Number 10. Thou shalt meekly accept battles lost in pursuit of wars won
Number 7. Thou shalt not cease falsificating thine beliefs
I’m only familiar with the two versions of the commandments given in Exodus and Deuteronomy: I specified Exodus specifically to clarify that distinction, then wound up using an example that’s the same in both of them. Oh well. I’ve never heard of a third, though; can you remember any other context?
I’d expect there to be exactly two versions, for the same reason that there are two creation stories in Genesis: the early books of the Bible are the first written form of a faith with two competing (though closely related!) oral traditions.
Anyway, now that I’ve thought about it more I think this concept would work better as a riff on the book of Proverbs.