I think it should be:
.999~ is too exactly the same as 1, Medammit.
I guess this is a good opportunity to reflect and check my current score.
Commandment 1 - Doing okay on a technicality. Haven’t been worshipping the GOD as well as I could, but haven’t been worshipping any other gods either.
Commandment 2 - Easy one here. No molten gods.
Commandment 3 - Not looking good here. Maybe I can claim a waiver due to not having a month of Abib on my calendar.
Commandment 4 - Don’t even understand this one. Watch the movies again, maybe listen to the director’s commentary.
Commandment 5 - Close enough. Take a couple days off every week, doesn’t get specific on Sabbaths and such.
Commandment 6 - Does Thanksgiving count here?
Commandment 7 - Real bad here. I didn’t even fill out my census form right and that was four years ago.
Commandment 8 - Again, I squeak by on a technicality. If I don’t offer a sacrifice at all, I can’t do it the wrong way.
Commandment 9 - This one apparently applies to gardeners and such.
Commandment 10 - Haven’t been good on meat and dairy in general, but I’ve never actually boiled a lamb in its mother’s milk. If GOD wanted to use metaphors, he should have said so.
So, on paper, I’m not looking too bad. But given the overall tone of the Old Testament, I probably should look into getting some legal help for some of the gray areas.
Note that Bible often says that this day of no work is meant to be on the Sabbath (i.e. sundown Friday to sundown Saturday)
And it talks about the punishment:
Exodus 31:15
For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must be put to death.
Exodus 35:2
For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it must be put to death.
Numbers 15:32-36
While the Israelites were in the desert, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day. Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly, and they kept him in custody, because it was not clear what should be done to him. Then the LORD said to Moses, “The man must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp.” So the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD commanded Moses.
From time to time since my childhood in the 60s I have met people who insist there are twelve Commandments, but cannot name them.
I think this is an instance of an odd phenomenon which has been discussed on this board before with respect to the states in The United States; there have been a couple of threads, at least, started by people who had gotten the impression there are 52 states in the union.
In The History of the World: Part I Mel Brooks, as Moses, juggles with three tablets on the way down Mt. Sinai: “I bring you these Twelve Commandments! (Crash!) I bring you these Ten Commandments!”
In Anthony Newley’s play The Good Old Bad Old Days Jehovah refers to The Twelve Commandments. When Satan tells him there are only ten, God says something such as: “this is what I get for trusting Moses.”