Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Tory Thorpe <torythrp AT yahoo.com>]

--- Gary Hedrick <garyh AT cjfm.org> wrote:

>       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.  

You mean ten "words".

Tory Thorpe