That is absolutely false. The 7 Noahide Commandments prohibit all of those things and there is a large body of Sanhedrin interpretative case law that interprets the Noahide commandments to be virtually no different in impact than the analogous Decalogue prohibitions. And the Mishnah Torah plainly teaches that Adam was given 6 of the 7 Noahide Commandments that also prohibited all of the four acts that you mentioned. I imagine that you are going to argue that neither the Adamic or Noahide Commandments are laid out with much specificity in the Book of Genesis, and you would be correct. However, there is a large body of Sanhedrin interpretive caselaw that gave them the needed specificity. Here is what Ellen White deliberately withheld from Seventh Day Adventists, while she was plagiarizing from Edersheim to use in Patriarchs and Prophets:
"Perhaps we ought also to notice in this connection that, whatever may have been the common practice before, now for the first time the use of animal food was expressly permitted, with the exception of the blood, and that probably for the reason afterwards mentioned in the case of sacrifices, that the blood was the seat of life. (Leviticus 17:11, 14) Another and most important change is marked by the solemn prohibition of murder, with this addition, that "whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." Such crimes were no longer to be avenged directly by God Himself, but He delegated His authority to man. (Romans 8:1, 2) As Luther rightly says, "In these words the civil magistracy is instituted, and the Divine right of bearing the sword." For when it is added, as a reason why murder should be punished with death, that God made man in His own image, it seems to convey that vengeance might not be taken by any one at his own will, but that this belonged to those who on earth represented the authority of God, or were His delegates; whence also they are called in Psalm 82:6, "gods," or rather "Elohim."* And, as Luther rightly argues, "If God concedes to man the power over life and death, assuredly this carries with it authority over that which is less than life, such as goods, family, wife, children, servants, and land." Thus the words spoken by the Lord to Noah contain the warrant and authority of those who are appointed rulers and judges over us. In later times the Jews have been wont to speak of what they called the seven Noachic commandments, which, according to them, were binding upon all Gentile proselytes. These were a prohibition (1) of idolatry, (2) of blasphemy, (3) of murder,
(4) of incest, (5) of robbery and theft, (6) of eating blood and strangled animals, and (7) an injunction of obedience to magistrates.
Chapter 7
Only if you willfully overlook both the Adamic and Noahide commandments, as well as the later covenants for Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. And the later Sanhedrin caselaw that plainly bars Gentiles from keeping the Sabbath, since they already had a very long history of being bound by the Noahide Mitzvot. Here's what the Mishnah Torah (Oral Torah) says about the covenants:
9.1 Adam, the first man, was commanded with six commandments: 1) idolatry, 2) “blessing” (euphemistically) the Name (of G-d), 3) murder, 4) illicit sexual relations, 5) thievery and, 6) establishing a system of justice.
9.2 Even though all of these have been received as a Tradition from Moses our Teacher and we can understand the rationale for them, nevertheless, from (verses in) the Torah (we learn that) it was these that they were commanded. A seventh commandment forbidding the eating of a limb torn from a live animal was added for Noah, as it says, “Even flesh, life is in the blood, do not eat of it” (Genesis 9:4).
9.3 These commandments were universally applicable - until Abraham. With Abraham, circumcision was also commanded and he prayed Shacharis (the Morning Prayer). Isaac separated out a tithe and added another prayer in the afternoon and, with Jacob, the prohibition against eating the sciatic nerve was
added, as was the Maariv (Evening) Prayer. In Egypt, Amram was commanded with other precepts and, with Moses our Teacher, the Torah was completed.
http://halakhah.com/rst/kingsandwars.pdf
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And Hebrew Scholars have proved quite dramatically that the wording of the 7th day of creation is dramatically different than the first six days. The 7th "day" is clearly never-ending:
Here's how Hebrew Linguists deal with the question of whether the Sabbath is a creation ordinance:
The narrative of the seventh day states:
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God … rested … from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy…(Gen. 2:1-3)
Young-Earth View
Young-earth creationists believe the seventh day of God’s rest was a 24-hour period. Based on the statement in Exodus 20:11 (ESV), “For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day,” they maintain the creation “week” was a period of seven 24-hour days.
Old-Earth View
Old-earth creationists contend the seventh day is an ongoing period. Although God continues His providential work of preserving and governing His creation, He is at rest in the sense that He is no longer creating. Because the seventh day is a period of indeterminate length, they argue this is evidence the other creation days are not 24-hour periods.
Exegetical Support
The seventh day lacks the concluding “evening/morning” refrain found in the narratives of the other creation days. This indicates God’s Sabbath rest is ongoing. Since God’s Sabbath rest is unending, the seventh day must be unending. The New Testament confirms the seventh day of God’s rest is an ongoing reality. For example in Hebrews, God invites us, present tense, to join Him in His Sabbath rest:
For we who have believed enter that rest, as he said, ‘As I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter my rest,’ although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: ‘And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.’ And again in this passage he said, ‘They shall not enter my rest.' (Hebrews 4:3-5, ESV).
The English translation of Exodus 20:11, “For in six days the LORD made the heavens and earth...” makes it sound as though God created everything within the confines of six calendar-days. However, the preposition “in” does not appear in the original Hebrew. Rather, the verse is more correctly translated, “For six yôms the LORD made...” The addition of “in” originated with the King James Version translation and “played a significant role in the advocacy of the creation days being completed within 144 hours (6x24).”When the verse is correctly translated, it is clear the creation “days” could have been long time periods.
The reference to the Sabbath in Exodus 20 seems to refer to the pattern of “days,” not their duration. The emphasis is on the pattern of work and rest, a ratio of six to one, not on the length of the creation days. Exodus 20:9 addresses the work-week of humans (seven 24-hour days); Exodus 20:11 addresses the work-week of God (seven time periods). Thus, as Hebrew scholar Gleason Archer notes: “By no means does this [Exodus 20:9-11] demonstrate that 24-hour intervals were involved in the first six ‘days,’ any more than the eight-day celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles proves that the wilderness wanderings under Moses occupied only eight days.” In Leviticus 25:4 the pattern of one out of seven is duplicated with six years of planting the land and one year of “Sabbath rest for the land.” This further demonstrates the analogy of our Sabbath to God’s Sabbath does not demand that the creation “week” consisted of seven 24-hour days."
The Six Days of Creation: A Closer Look at Scripture
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"THE" Moral Law? You want to reword that to include at least 300 other moral laws in the Mosaic legal scheme? The Ten Commandments are EMPHATICALLY not the only "moral law" in the Mosaic Law. Far far from it. Here is a short and sweet analysis of how the Ten Commandments fits in with the rest of the 613 Old Testament Commandments:
"But there is an additional aspect of this controversy that is of concern from a Jewish perspective. In Talmudic times, the rabbis consciously made a decision to exclude daily recitation of the Aseret ha-Dibrot from the liturgy because excessive emphasis on these statements might lead people to mistakenly believe that these were the only mitzvot or the most important mitzvot, and neglect the full 613 (Talmud Berakhot 12a). By posting these words prominently and referring to them as "The Ten Commandments," (as if there weren't any others, which is what many people think) schools and public buildings may be teaching a message that Judaism specifically and consciously rejected."
Judaism 101: Aseret ha-Dibrot: The "Ten Commandments"
You know what Adventists always leave off of their nice Powerpoint presentations when they are explaining that the Ten Commandments were made at creation for all humankind? What the Jews believed is the real FIRST Commandment:
"1) I am the Lord thy god, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage."
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/command.html
Now why on earth do you think Adventists would deliberately leave out what Judaism has long taught was the REAL First Commandment? Could it be that Adventists have lost all of their Worker's Compensation paperwork that was submitted to the Pharaoh after that unfortunate stint on the Pyramid crew?
Because God never made "the Sabbath during creation!" And of course he never told Abraham to keep the Seventh Day either, nor is there any record of any kind that Abraham kept the Sabbath.
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