1665.—Difference in Accounts. Exodus 20, Deuteronomy 5

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 24, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 21.

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1665.—Difference in Accounts. Exodus 20, Deuteronomy 5.

How do you account for the difference in the wording of the law of God as given in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5?
Exodus 20 gives us the law as God spoke it from heaven; Deuteronomy 5 is Moses' repetition of the law at the end of forty years, with certain additional reasons as to why that redeemed people were under special obligations to observe it.