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Ten Commandments
85
simultaneously as the initial of the
next word
followed by a defective
Alef: YaHUH (Yahuweh)
= AHUH
(archaic) = AHIH (Ehiyeh).44)
§
16 . My analysis of interpolations in the
last three lines of the Ten
Commandments also
proved correct, for my text
without any post-
Mosaical additions fits
exactly into the blank space
of 96
letters.45) The
tetragrammaton following
Lo Tissa et-Shem
"Thou shalt not take the name"
(Exodus 20,
7 = Deuteronomy 5, 11) has to
be
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44) Cf. TORAH OF THE ALPHABET
(N. 1) pp. 107–111.
The word ALHIM
(Elohim) as a technical term of
the law of the
Torah incontrovertibly
means "judge" (Exodus 22, 8 et
passim),
and hence may refer to
Moses, who was the first supreme
judge
(Shofet) and commander-in-chief
after establishing a system
of
inferior courts, parallel to the military
command structure (Exodus
18, 13–27).
Both Rashi and the King
James Version translate
Elohim in
Exodus 22 with Dayanim (English "judges").
The word
Elohim on the Tablets
of the Law occurs in the same legal
context (Exodus 20, 2–14), and means "supreme
judge". It is a contraction
of El
ha-Elim "highest leader" as in Eley
Mo’av "the leaders of
Moab" (Exodus
15, 15), with a superlative
comparable to Eved
Avadim "lowest
servant" (Genesis 9, 25)
or Melekh Melakhim
"king of kings" (Ezekiel 26, 7).
45) See above Note 21. Interpolation
research in Roman
Law was opposed for
centuries by traditionalists, cf. Fritz Schulz
supra Note 20. However,
interpolation research of
the Ten
Commandments cannot
be accused of butchering the
traditional
text, because it is verifiable
by the geometry of the Tablets of
the Law (above Note 42). It is not
new to Jewish thought, and
was
practised already by Rabbi Akiva
almost 2000 years ago.
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