Which Ten Commandments?
Last night my wife and I were having an argument over whether “Thou shalt not covet” included “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife,” or whether that was a separate commandment. Turns out, it depends *Which* Ten Commandments you’re looking at. Apparently the Catholics felt it necessary to separate out “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife” from “Thou shalt not covet they neighbor’s goods”, while collapsing “I am the Lord thy God” and “Thou shalt have no other god before me” into one.
Interestingly, after Moses smashed the tablets in Exodus 20, God supposedly replaced them with a new set with “the words that were on the first” in Exodus 34, but apparently the “new” set are completely different, with commandments such as “The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep in the month when the ear is on the corn,” “All the first-born are mine,” and “The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning.”