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Did God burn the tablets for Moses in Hebrew and were they numbered with Roman or Arabic numerals?

If so, then the Hebrew God is God, unless he sent translations to other races. That might explain Hitler's rage against the Jews. If there are no other contenders for the exclusive right to Yaweh, or rather the name we do not say, like Valdemort, then Israel might consider it a green light to genocide. They have nukes, so what's the holdup? It seems to me that everyone is heathen according to one deity or another. What's your take on the subject?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    WHAT are you drinking or smoking?

    Whatever substance inspired this bizarre stream of consciousness, please seek help now!

    There is nothing about the tablets being burned, that's the depiction in Cecil B. DeMille's movie.

    It would make sense that the words engraved in stone by God for Moses would be in a script he and all Israel could read, hence it was almost certain to have been Paleo-Hebrew, an early version of Hebrew script.

    There is no mention of numbers being on the tablets.

    You think Hitler had rage against the Jews because God only wrote the decalogue in Ivrit? (Hebrew) Oy gevalt. Guess you never heard that he expressed his feelings as doing what he thought was the work of his Lord and Savior ( Mein Kampf and hundreds of his recorded on film speeches)

    Correction. It is Christianity that makes exclusive claim on God, not Judaism or Torah. Torah shows in a great many places that all humans may directly connect to and know God, Christianity claims that only adherents of it's dogma ( those who rely on the sacrifice and blood of Jesus to atone for sin ) merit capacity to connect to God. It's clams are heresy for Jews. All humans are equal before God in Judaism. Isaiah repeats this with his claim that the righteous of all nations (Gentiles) merit the world to come.

    Your other claims are simply too illogical to address. Maybe after a good night's sleep you'll feel better and think more clearly in the morning.

  • 1 decade ago

    He didn't burn the tablets (either with fire or on a computer....)

    IF there were any numbers, they would have been in Hebrew, or the form of Hebrew Moses understood.

    The ten commandments were written in the language that the people of the time understood. God was simply communicating with them at that point and therefore the whole episode was written down in the language that they understood.

    Judaism is not, and never has been, a religion that insists that everyone has to follow it or be damned. There's nothing exclusive going on, except in your mind.

    How you get from there to Israel using nuclear weapons is somewhat beyond me, unless you seriously believe, entirely mistakenly, that Jews (and not all Israelis, and not all Israeli members of the Knesset, are Jews) want to exterminate the rest of humanity. Nothing could be further from the truth. We don't have a concept of 'heathen' in the pejorative sense of damning all who don't follow our way. That's Christians and Muslims.

  • 1 decade ago

    The Ark of the Covenant was looted by the Romans, so it is unlikely that the tablets survived. Therefore, there is no way to verify the language or the authorship.

    Anyone can worship the Hebrew god, whether they are Jewish or not, therefore there is no monopoly. Also, the bible acknowledges that there are other gods, does not forbid non-Israelites from worshipping them.

    Jews don't want to destroy all other races, because Jews just aren't like that. I don't think Israel even has nukes.

    Most deities don't have a problem with people who don't follow them.

    Now that we have that cleared up, do you still have a question?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I don't think Roman or Arabic numerals existed then. Actually, I'm not 100% sure the commandments were numbered. We like to number things these days, so we can refer to paragraph x page x, but I don't think they did that in those days.

    At the end of the Exodus story, God marched the Hebrews into Canaan and ordered Joshua to destroy the city of Jericho. God told him to kill everyone in the city--man, woman, child, even the livestock. He ordered him to knock down every building so not one stone lay on top of another stone. And then to burn the whole thing.

    So if Israel has nukes, it's a damn good thing they don't take this literally! 8^P

    I think enlightened people realize that Jews, Christians and Muslims all worship the same God, just worship him differently (and wrongly). I've even had Hindus tell me that all their gods are really faces of one God, the same God as westerners have.

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  • 1 decade ago

    When Moses was given the tablets by God it was hundreds or thousands of years before Rome was a power & way before there was an Arabic language. My take on the language was that it was ancient Hebrew symbols like Egyptian hieroglyphics - the meaning of which were passed down by preaching the Word of God (no matter the name of the God) because people could not read nor write in ancient times.

  • 1 decade ago

    If that be the case, which it is not...the Hebrew language has numerics...duh...Hello...Anyway, there is much confusion on the translations especially concerning something as powerful as the scriptures that were inspired by Yahweh-Elohim...One thing is for certain the Holy name of Yah never changed and never will.......the Son of God has maintained the same glorious and powerful name since the beginning of time....Yahweh would never give a name unto the world by which man can be saved, if He had to have the Greek translaters, or Latin translators or any other scholar translate a universal name, from a universal creator. Makes you think uh????

  • 1 decade ago

    The Jews do not say that no one else could worship their god.

    In fact, there are multiple points in the Bible where the opposite is true. Shechem is told after his "rape" of Dinah that he and his people must convert and be circumsised, and he does it. Joseph marries the daughter of an Egyptian priest. Over and over after the Exodus as they reclaim Israel they bring the survivors of their raids into the fold. Judaism to this day allows converts, and they do not say one has to be Jewish to worship the Hebrew god. In Daniel the king of Babylon does!

    Nothing is ever a green light to genocide, nothing ever makes that right.

    PS: It's Voldemort.

  • 1 decade ago

    As far as I know they weren't numbered. And since Moses probably read Hebrew, I'd say they were in Hebrew. As far as translations go, it's already been done, in most if not all the languages of the world.

  • Kallan
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    1 decade ago

    I'm not going to address the ridiculous first portion of your question as it's obviously designed to attack the Jewish people.

    As a pagan (and someone with a degree in world religions) I'll just say that the only two belief systems that see outsiders as "heathens" are Christianity and Islam. (Judaism's god is not the same as the christian god)The rest of the gods just don't care enough to send you to eternal torment..sorry.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I think they might have been in Hieroglyphs.

    But, who knows. We do know they were actually written down much later, passed on by mouth before that. (oral tradition) But, my bias that Moses coming out of Egypt, probably wrote in an Egyptian style, comes through.

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