I haven't studied this yet on any advanced level or anything, but from taking a few glances and looking at a few scriptures, I find that the idea of the ten commandments being the "law of God" and the rest being the "law of Moses" does not hold up (Moses received everything from Yahweh in the first place).
Firstly, in every reference to the "ten commandments" the word for commandment (mitzvah) does not even appear. In all references to the ten commandments the word in place for "commandments" is devarim, which is the plural form of "dabar/davar", meaning "word" or "statement".
Although they are commandments, classifying them as the ten commandments, I think, mistakenly puts them into a different category from all other commandments.
But why were they put on stone and set apart to go inside the ark? Why only ten?
Well, as described in Exodus 19 and 20, there were great thunderings, lightnings, shofar blasts and fire and smoke etc...
This frightened the people. So they went to Moses and told him that he should go up and talk with Yahweh because they feared the glory of Yahweh killing them off!
So it is evident that they did not hear the rest of what Yahweh had to say out of his own mouth. The rest was given to them by Moses.
Why did Yahweh add "no more" as per Deuteronomy 5:22 when the ten devarim were repeated (by Moses)? Again, the people became afraid and asked Moses to be their intercessor.
So because they did hear the voice of Yahweh, even if they did not let him (and I mean because he listened to them and granted them their request) continue speaking for fear, he had these words written on two stone tablets as a witness (which is why it is called the "testimony") that they should obey the rest of what Yahweh had to say which they didn't hear because Yahweh spoke it to Moses to give to them for their fear.
The ten devarim are only fractions of the whole Torah. They are not distinguished from the rest as some separate, "law of God" and they do not alone encompass love (the little clever way to divide it into love for Yahweh commandments and love for one's neighbor).
The two great commandments are the rest from which all Torah and Neviim/Prophets hang, not the ten words alone.
They don't cover, for instance, something like this:
Leviticus 18:7 The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
Or this:
Leviticus 19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
The NT does not make a distinction between the ten devarim and the rest, as divided into "law of Moses" and "law of God".
Firstly, in every reference to the "ten commandments" the word for commandment (mitzvah) does not even appear. In all references to the ten commandments the word in place for "commandments" is devarim, which is the plural form of "dabar/davar", meaning "word" or "statement".
Although they are commandments, classifying them as the ten commandments, I think, mistakenly puts them into a different category from all other commandments.
But why were they put on stone and set apart to go inside the ark? Why only ten?
Well, as described in Exodus 19 and 20, there were great thunderings, lightnings, shofar blasts and fire and smoke etc...
This frightened the people. So they went to Moses and told him that he should go up and talk with Yahweh because they feared the glory of Yahweh killing them off!
So it is evident that they did not hear the rest of what Yahweh had to say out of his own mouth. The rest was given to them by Moses.
Why did Yahweh add "no more" as per Deuteronomy 5:22 when the ten devarim were repeated (by Moses)? Again, the people became afraid and asked Moses to be their intercessor.
So because they did hear the voice of Yahweh, even if they did not let him (and I mean because he listened to them and granted them their request) continue speaking for fear, he had these words written on two stone tablets as a witness (which is why it is called the "testimony") that they should obey the rest of what Yahweh had to say which they didn't hear because Yahweh spoke it to Moses to give to them for their fear.
The ten devarim are only fractions of the whole Torah. They are not distinguished from the rest as some separate, "law of God" and they do not alone encompass love (the little clever way to divide it into love for Yahweh commandments and love for one's neighbor).
The two great commandments are the rest from which all Torah and Neviim/Prophets hang, not the ten words alone.
They don't cover, for instance, something like this:
Leviticus 18:7 The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
Or this:
Leviticus 19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
The NT does not make a distinction between the ten devarim and the rest, as divided into "law of Moses" and "law of God".