I do remember opening Exodus as a teenager, trying to find the Ten Commandments, and finding pages and pages of commandments with no idea which ones were the ten. I may have accidentally flipped ahead too many pages and ended up in Leviticus; but the upshot was, lots of commandments, too few line-breaks.

That's because there's no commandment requiring editing.

lots of commandments, too few line-breaks.

There are 613 in total. The 10 are just the ones that would fit on the first couple of tablets.

I think it started as The Ten Suggestions.

Are you saying they weren't so much rules, as guidelines?

Leviticus was my favourite book, until I discovered the Song of Solomon.

I have no headache. I have the edges of the headache, and the wonkies, but really? No headache is the most important thing.

What confuses me about the term "First Commandment" is that if you are looking in the Old Testament (if you are Christian), you would assume that means the first of the ten**. But in the New Testament, Jesus says the first commandment is "Love the Lord your God with all your heart...and the second is love your neighbor as yourself." (I think this is the same thing -t is referring to - at least the same words although maybe not from the same exact place in the scripture since Jews don't use the New Testament.)

** which is this:

I am the lord your god who brought you out of the land of Egypt

you shall have no other gods before me

ETA: And before the biblical pedants strike, I see now that according to the New Testament, Jesus refers to the greatest commandment, not the first, so never mind....

That's because there's no commandment requiring editing.

Think how much better off we'd be if there were.

Think how much better off we'd be if there were.

Let me tell you how excited I was when Emmett's 2nd grade teacher introduced The Daily Edit into their course work.

That's right - every day the second graders were editing spelling and grammatical mistakes.

The Daily Show segment on the Rapturers also concerned a website that will send messages to your friends for you if you are Raptured. One of Colbert's more sublime works.

(I surmise that from this and his "This Week in God" regular feature religion is a topic near and dear to his heart much the way it is to Cindy.)

Nonian, i learned it the way you understand it (I am, etc...no other gods = Commandment #1) in CCD. However, the cantor told us that the first part is the first commandment and the "You shall have no other gods" part is the 2nd commandment. It was weird to me, but he was quite specific. Why we have these different readings of the text, I don't know.

-t, it seems weird, but you are probably right. I considered looking it up again, but don't have the energy.

BTW, how's the baby coming along?