Which ten commandments?

[SpaceFalcon2001]

Yesterday I ran across an interesting fact in the bible:

Exodus 20, Moses recieves the 10 commandments

Exodus 32, Moses gets pissed and smashes them

Exodus 34, Moses recieves 10 DIFFERENT COMMANDMENTS, yet they are intended to be like the first.

After some searching I managed to find 3 comments on this text:

quote:Talmud, Nedarim 22b: Had Israel not sinned with the Golden Calf, they would have received only the Five Books of Moses and the book of Joshua. Why? Because, as the verse (Ecclesiastes 1:18 ) says, "Much wisdom comes through much grief."

quote:Midrash, Rabbah: G-d said to Moses: Do not be distressed over the First Tablets, which contained only the Ten Commandments. In the Second Tablets I am giving you also Halachah, Midrash and Aggadah.

quote:Talmud, Bava Batra 14b: Both the [Second] Tablets and the broken Tablets, were placed in the Ark.

This has led me to the conclusion that this is no seperate ten commandments, but in fact a continuation of the original. A rewriting almost, in light of the sin of the Golden Calf.

In a discussion with a friend we also managed to clarify a bit more that these new commandments were introduced perhaps as a set of clarification rules as determined by the act of the golden calf.

For example, in the first set, it mearly says no graven images, but in the second set it declares no MOLTEN gods, as the golden calf was.