Gleaning and the Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments from the Book of Exodus are very familiar. The next Book of the Old Testament Leviticus deals with the construction of the Temple. Chapter 19 of this Book deals with the issue of integrating the commandments about ritual and morality. So much of the Ten Commandments are repeated but a longer list of commandments especially in regard to ritual purity are added. Below is a comparison of the short list of Exodus and the long list of Leviticus. The list of Leviticus follows closely the list of Exodus with some notable exceptions repeated in Bold. Leviticus with its concern about ritual purity introduces its list with "Be ye Holy because I the Lord your God am holy." Its first command with regard to God is "Keep my sabbaths." An obvious rearrangement because of its concern about worship. It's list saves the commandment about false oaths for the section dealing with human relationships. The strangest alteration is that Leviticus places "...