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Exodus 20 forbids murder, adultery, theft, false witness, and coveting. The Apocalypse of Abraham echoes this order in the sins Abraham sees with their punishments, turning the commands into a picture of the destructive acts and their consequences.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Exodus 20:14
Hebrew Bible
9 For six days you may labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or the resident foreigner who is in your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, and he rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy. 12 “Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving to you. 13 “You shall not murder. 14 “You shall not commit adultery.
Apocalypse of Abraham 24:6
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
4 And I looked and saw there what was before me in creation; 5 I saw Adam, and Eve existing with him, and with them the cunning Adversary, and Cain who acted lawlessly through the Adversary and the slaughtered Abel, (and) the destruction brought and caused upon him through the lawless one. 6 I saw there also Impurity, and those who lust after it, and its pollution, and their jealousy, and the fire of their corruption in the lowest parts of the earth. 7 I saw there Theft, and those who hasten after it, and the arrangement [of their retribution, the judgement of the Great Assize]. 8 I saw there naked men, the foreheads against each other, and their disgrace, and their passion which (they had) against each other, and their retribution.
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Notes and References
“... Kugel posits a corruption at the Hebrew stage of transmission: erom (‘rwm), “na-
ked,” from edim (‘dym), “witnesses,” which allows verses 24:5–9 to be seen as referring to the
violation of the last five prohibitions of the Ten Commandments (murder, adultery, theft, false
witness, and covetousness). ...”
Kulik, Alexander
"Apocalypse of Abraham" in Louis H. Feldman, James L. Kugel, and Lawrence H. Schiffman (eds.) Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture
(p. 1472) The Jewish Publication Society, 2013
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