“... In 2. 2 the Didachist begins an exposition of the Way of Life with an expansion of the second half of the Decalogue. The ordering and wording of the elements from the Decalogue which are included in the Didache here bear some relationship to the list which appears in Matthew’s account of Jesus’ enumeration of these commands to the rich young man in Matt. 19, though it is not clear whether Matthew’s version is sufficiently different from the other synoptic versions for this to be significant in the present discussion. All three synoptics have the same order of the four commands mentioned, and this differs from that of the LXX versions of the Decalogue in both Exod. 20 and Deut. 5 by having ‘murder’ before ‘adultery’. However, the MT versions of both Exod. 20 and Deut. 5 agree with the synoptic versions in having the ban on ‘murder’ first. Hence it is not certain whether the Didache is here to be seen as dependent on the NT versions or simply on the MT version of the OT itself (or perhaps on a Greek version of the OT which was closer to the ordering of the MT than our LXX versions). ...”