According to the biblical narrative the first set of tablets, inscribed by the finger of God, (Exodus 31:18) were smashed by Moses when he was enraged by the sight of the Children of Israel worshipping a golden calf (Exodus 32:19) and the second were later chiseled out by Moses and rewritten by God (Exodus 34:1).
Q. What is the Hammurabi Code?
The Hammurabi code of laws, a collection of 282 rules, established standards for commercial interactions and set fines and punishments to meet the requirements of justice. Hammurabi’s Code was carved onto a massive, finger-shaped black stone stele (pillar) that was looted by invaders and finally rediscovered in 1901.
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- Q. What is the Hammurabi Code?
- Q. How does the Ten Commandments differ from the twelve tables?
- Q. Why did Moshe break the tablets?
- Q. How many times did Moses go up the mountain?
- Q. Who destroyed the Ten Commandments?
- Q. What did Moses throw at the golden calf?
- Q. What God was the golden calf?
- Q. Why is the golden calf in the Bible?
Q. How does the Ten Commandments differ from the twelve tables?
The similarities between Roman Twelve Tables and The Ten Commandments are these two is a Law that should be abided but the differences between the two is that Roman Twelve tables are an ancient Roman code of law that binds both patrician and plebeian which also consuls would have to enforce; while, the ten commandments …
Q. Why did Moshe break the tablets?
According to the above three Midrashim, Moses’ motive in breaking the tablets was in defense of Israel, to provide an extenuation for their sin, to throw his lot in with theirs.
Q. How many times did Moses go up the mountain?
Moses went up and down Mt. Sinai 7 times, and they all are recorded in the Book of Exodus.
Q. Who destroyed the Ten Commandments?
The 33-year-old Van Buren man who broadcast himself over the Internet demolishing Arkansas’ first Ten Commandments monument at the Capitol was acquitted Thursday on mental-health grounds. Michael Tate Reed II had been charged with felony criminal mischief, which carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence.
Q. What did Moses throw at the golden calf?
Moses went down from the mountain, but upon seeing the calf, he became angry and threw down the two Tablets of Stone, breaking them. Moses burnt the golden calf in a fire, ground it to powder, scattered it on water, and forced the Israelites to drink it.
Q. What God was the golden calf?
Mentioned in Exodus 32 and I Kings 12 in the Old Testament, worship of the golden calf is seen as a supreme act of apostasy, the rejection of a faith once confessed. The figure is probably a representation of the Egyptian bull god Apis in the earlier period and of the Canaanite fertility god Baal in the latter.
Q. Why is the golden calf in the Bible?
It was a symbol of virility and strength associated with the Canaanite god El, and such idolatry would persist into the period of the divided monarchy. King Jeroboam I of the Northern Kingdom of Israel commissioned two golden calves for the sanctuaries of Yahweh in Bethel and Dan, to serve as the Lord’s attendants.
