Believe it or not, there are 2 sets of “10 Commandments”. There is a second version of The Ten Commandments that’s different from the first! Moses repeats the first version word-for-word in Deuteronomy, but there’s a second, quite different version in Exodus.
Here’s the first version of ‘The 10 Commandments’:
1. You shall have no other gods before me.
2. You shall not make images and bow down and worship them.
3. You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God.
4. Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
5. Honor your father and your mother.
6. You shall not kill.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
10. You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.
Here’s the second version of ‘The 10 Commandments’:
1. Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land.
2. Do not make any idols (=#2 above).
3. Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread.
4. The first offspring of every womb belongs to me.
5. No one is to appear before me empty-handed.
6. Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest (=#4 above).
7. Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
8. Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning.
9. Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.
10. Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
When God renews the covenant with Moses after the people have broken it and Moses smashed the original tablets, God gave Moses a “new” set of Ten Commandments because He knew that a man who cannot walk by on his own may use a crutch to go further.