Ten Commandments
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8. The rest of the Ten Commandments
(Exodus 20, 7–14 = Deuteronomy
5, 11–18) differs in both versions.
Applying the method of interpolation
research from ancient Roman Law
to ancient Jewish or Israelite Law,
I did my best as a lawyer and judge
to restore the original text of the
Mosaical Tablets of the Law by removing
what appeared to be post-Mosaical additions.20) Then I continued writing,
and came out, after three more lines
or 96 letters, exactly at the end of
the tenth line.21)
This indicated that the 10 Devarim
(Exodus 34, 28) written by Moses,
and traditionally, but falsely
translated
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20) Interpolation research of the
Ten Commandments was already
done by Rabbi Akiva ben
Joseph and his school in the
Sefer Yetzirah (above Note
14), where the mere
text written on the original
Tablets of the Law, without any
post- Mosaical interpolations, is
called beli Mah "without
anything", while Roman Law
began with interpolation
research only in the time of the
Renaissance, cf. Fritz Schulz, Classical
Roman Law, (Oxford 1954) pp. 4 and 5.
21) After finishing seven lines one could
guess that the 10 Devarim (cf.
Note 18 supra) might
refer to 10 lines
of 32 letters each, leaving 96
letters for the last three lines.
The 10 lines (Sefirot)
of 32 letters (Ketivot,
correct for Netivot) are meant
in the Sefer Yetzirah,
as observed in the TORAH OF
THE ALPHABET (N.
1) p. 120, but
Gershom Scholem (N. 14)
seems to have been completely unaware of
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