srothstein wrote: ↑Sun Apr 30, 2023 9:20 pm
But I also pointed out that the way they are listed and how I read them, the Ten Commandments monument on the Capitol grounds has eleven commandments. Posting that in a classroom for younger students, maybe third grade or around that, would drive the teachers crazy with kids asking them how they count it as ten.
If boys can be girls, then 11 can be 10.
While we're on the 10 Commandments.... some trivia.. I expect this is not news to most, but, FWIW.... Just as in English, the words "kill" and "murder" have different meanings. In the Hebrew 10 Commandments, the word is "
רצח ", pronounced "retzach"... meaning...
Murder.
NIV Exodus 20 is consistent with the use of the word "Murder".... Definitely irks me when I see it written as "Kill"...
I had a very terse discussion many years ago, when a favorite retail shop posted a no guns sign after CC was first passed in NC. The proprietor quoted "thou shall not kill" as scripture. I pointed out the above distinction between murder and kill... a few weeks later the sign was gone. Likely they heard from more than just me... but.. I'm taking credit.
