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To: Caesar Soze
How is that a commandment? It’s a declaration.

"Ten commandments" is an English idea. The Torah says, "Atzeret debrot" which is probably the genesis of the phrase, but these words are usually translated as "ten words." The Torah actually contains 613 commandments.

ML/NJ

30 posted on 09/25/2009 2:14:11 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj

10/613 ping


31 posted on 09/25/2009 2:42:08 PM PDT by QBFimi2 (Ve are the New World Order; ve bring to the world dis-order. Spike Jones, 1943.)
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