What I'm getting at is asking if you follow the ten commandments as found in Exodus 34. In Exodus 34:1-4, Moses is commanded to write down what God tells him .
Not True - in Ex 34:1 GOD writes the same Ten already spoken and already written before. Not Moses. All Moses does is "get the blank stones" -- Moses writes commandments in Ex 34 .. and God writes the Ten on stone.
1. God writes the Ten Commandment according to 34 vs 1 as already pointed out.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee
two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
You keep skipping over that verse for reasons I can't explain
2. God also spoke the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20.
3. Moses writes commandments in Ex 34 but they are never called "The Ten" Commandments in scripture. I notice that you keep doing that ... not sure why.
However, the commands given in between vss 4 and 27, though they are called the "10 commandments" are not identical to the commandments in Ex 20
The commandments in Ex 34:4-27 are never called "the Ten Commandments" in the Bible and never written on stone.
Ex 34:28
So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the
Ten Commandments.
It is the spoken list that we have in Exodus 20 that are called the "TEN Commandments" spoken by God and Exodus 34:1 - written by God.
Deuteronomy 4:13
"So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, that is, the
Ten Commandments; and
He wrote them on two tablets of stone.
Deuteronomy 10:4
"
He wrote on the tablets, like the former writing, the
Ten Commandments which the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and the LORD gave them to me.
Deut 5
19 " You shall not steal.
20 " You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
21 " You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, and you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field or his male servant or his female servant, his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.'
Deut 5
22 ""
These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire, of the cloud and of the thick gloom, with a great voice, and
He added no more. He
wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
23 ""And when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders.
24 ""You said, "Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire; we have seen today that God speaks with man, yet he lives.
The spoken list of Exodus 20 also repeated in Deut 5 include almost all commands about our duty to our fellow man - not found in Ex 34 list that you keep pointing - a list not written by God in stone, not spoken by God, not called the Ten Commandments.
11 ‘You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.
12 ‘Observe the sabbath day to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. 13 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 14 but the seventh day is a sabbath of the Lord your God;
in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant or your ox or your donkey or any of your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you, so that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. 15 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to observe the sabbath day.
16 ‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well with you on the land which the Lord your God gives you.
17 ‘You shall not murder.
18 ‘You shall not commit adultery.
19 ‘You shall not steal.
20 ‘You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
21 ‘You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, and you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field or his male servant or his female servant, his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.’
Moses Interceded
22 “
These words the Lord spoke to all your assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire,
of the cloud and
of the thick gloom, with a great voice, and He added no more.
He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
Deuteronomy 4:13
"So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, that is, the
Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.
Deuteronomy 10:4
"He wrote on the tablets, like the former writing, the
Ten Commandments which the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and the LORD gave them to me.
Paul says of them "
Honor your father and mother for this is the FIRST COMMANDMENT with a promise" Eph 6:2.
It does not even show up in the list you focus on "instead"
Christ said "KEEP the Commandments" and is asked "which ones" in Matt 19 -- the list he gives is found in the TEN but not in the few that Moses wrote in Ex 34.
Paul also quotes from the commandments of God in Romans 13 -- none of which are found in the list you are diverting to - and almost all of which are in the TEN Commandments spoken by God and written by God in stone.
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John Gill's Commentary Ex 34:27
write thou these words; expressed in the preceding verses,
from Exodus 34:11, as he before had written in a book all those laws, contained in Exodus 21:1 called the book of the covenant, Exodus 24:4 and which perhaps might be destroyed, as well as the two tables were broken; and therefore upon the renewal of the covenant here, there is a repetition made of the principal laws before given, which are ordered also to be written in a book, which may very well be called by the same name, since it follows:
John Gill's commentary - Ex 34:28
and he wrote on the tables the words of the covenant,
the ten commandments; not Moses, for these were tables of stone, which he could not write or engrave upon without proper instruments, which it does not appear he had with him on the mount; b
ut it was God that wrote them, who, in Exodus 34:1 says he would write them, and from Deuteronomy 10:2 we are assured he did.