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Ten Commandments
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ments. It is letter no. 34, and
occurs at the
beginning of Bet
Avadim "house of bondage"
(Exodus
20, 2 = Deuteronomy 5,
6).10) The
Gezer tablet
and the proto-Sinaitic inscriptions
suggest
that the original text neither
separated
words nor used double
letters.11) Without
se-
parating spaces between words the final
Mem of
Mitzrayim "Egypt"
could simultaneously serve
as the
initial of the next word,
which also
happens to be Mem.12) Its omission makes
Bet
letter no. 33. There are no
other instances of
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also eighteenth-dynasty
Egypt is contemporary with both,
cf.
Immanuel Velikovsky, From
Exodus to King Akhnaton,
(1952)
chapter 5; Josephus Flavius,
Jewish Antiquities, II, 9 and VIII, 6;
and
Ed Metzler, Discovering the System
of Mosaical Metrology,
(Herborn 1985)
Notes 14 and 54.
10) When discovering the two-dimensional
structure of
the alphabetical order
(cf. Note 1 supra),
I noticed that the
22 letters
of the original
alphabet come in 11
consecutive
pairs of letters,
which supplement and explain
each other in
a variety
of ways, so that
the same principle would
have
to apply to both Alef
and Bet.
11) The Gezer tablet dates from the
tenth century B. C. E., and was
found in the city
of Gezer, which King
Solomon
received from Egypt
as dowry of his wife Queen
Hatshepsut,
the so-called Queen of Sheba
(Malkat Sheba = Malkah Hatsheba), cf. 1.
Kings 9, 16 and 10, 1–13;
Velikovsky (N. 9) chapter 3.
12) In order to see how double letters
were treated in
the Sinai at
the time of the Exodus (1441
B. C. E.), I turned
to the
inscription on the pedestal of a
sphinx (above Note 6),
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