justbyfaith
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They are the same ten in Deuteronomy 5:6-21 as in Exodus 20:1-17.Look again...
In chapter 20 God spoke 10 laws and the people freaked.
After they settled down He gave 4 more...and then went on to ordinances.
They are summaries.
If you were to study the 613 Mosaic Laws you would know that these summaries are defined more complete in actual body of the Law.
Then we turn to chapter 34 and here hands down and for sure is the only place in the Bible that God Himself called a set of laws the Ten Commandments and and even more specific God said these were the Laws that would form a Covenant. And even more, these are the Law that He told Moses to write on the two Tablets of the Testimony and in fact the scripture indicate that Moses did that.
Now if you want to point out that Deuteronomy points to another set of laws....that is your problem to resolve.
I am going to stick with what God spoke Himself, directly to Moses.
That the set that was given ends in verse 17 is evident in verse 18 (Exodus 20:18)...thunderings and lightnings being the separation between the ten written on tablets and the extra four that you seem to think are part of the ten.