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of Tzadi and Kaf could later
be mistaken for Shin and
Mem yielding the word
Shamor.51) A similar
divergence occurs in the commandment "Thou
shalt not bear false witness", in
which the word "false" reads Shaker
in Exodus 20, 13 and Shawa
in Deuteronomy 5, 17. Here the original
Kof and Resh of
Shaker were later mistaken for
Waw and Alef in Shawa.52)
§ 18.
After having succeeded in fully
re- constructing the original Tablets
of the Law, hewn and
written by Moses 3427 years ago
in the Sinai, it is safe to say
that they were, indeed, the first
document ever to be
written
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51) The Deuteronomy version of the Ten
Commandments is based upon an old manuscript
of the Torah of Moses
found in 622 B. C. E. (2. Kings 22,
8). At this time Mem looked
almost like the original Kaf, while
Kaf was developping in the direction of
its present shape. The difference of
Shin and Tzadi was only a
diacritical mark, so that
Tzakhor could easily be misread
as Shamor (see below p. 31).
52) The letter
Kof is in a very
vulnerable position (cf. Note 26
supra), where the top of its circle
may have become blurred, turning it
into the letter Waw. The first
two letters of Shamor are in the same
position on line 8 as the last two
letters of Shaker on line 10,
which suggests that they were rendered partially
illegible by the same scratch. Since the
number of letters is the same in both
versions, their differences do not affect
the reconstruction of the Tablets of the
Law, and could be left open.
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