Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Gary Hedrick" <garyh AT cjfm.org>]

        Joel, don't you mean Ex. 20?  Perhaps the difference in verse
numbering is related to the fact that the rabbis consider the introduction
("I am the LORD your God," v. 2) to be the first commandment, even though
the verse itself lacks an imperative verb and cannot therefore be a command
per se.  Then to make everything fit into 10 commandments, they combine
commandments 2 and 3 and make them commandment number two.  Some Roman
Catholic sources, by the way, follow this same order.

Gary Hedrick
San Antonio, Texas USA

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[mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Dr. Joel M. Hoffman
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 2:15 PM
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Subject: [b-hebrew] verse numbering in Exodus 12

Hi all,

I notice that the verse numbering of the 10 commandments in Exodus 12
differs in various places.  The numbering in the on-line version of
the Westminster Hebrew Institute's Leningrad Codex and Biblework's
version of JPS have one numbering; my printed volumes have another.

Does anyone know why?

Thanks.

-Joel


Joel M. Hoffman, PhD
http://www.lashon.net/JMH

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