In | Workbook: The Ten Commandments in Various Traditions

Grab your Workbook Journal!

[Record your answers in the workbook provided at the beginning of this course.]

As you can see in the lists below, various traditions have slightly different ways of articulating the Ten Commandments from Exodus 20. The differences are largely related to the beginning and the end of the list. 

Table adapted from: https://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/2007/03/chart-comparing-the-ten-commandments.aspx

2. Now that you can compare these lists, consider which yours is most like. As you can tell, the first ones are easy to merge. In the space below, record some of your reflections on the differences in the lists.

3. The Samaritan list treats the first two commands as one, making room for a new tenth one concerning Mt. Gerizim. What implications, if any, could come from this combining of the first two commandments?