Observations on my journey reading the Bible cover to cover Part 2: MATZO!
Possibly the most amusing thing I have found in my journey reading the Bible cover to cover:
Moses very clearly criticises the taste of matzo, even while reiterating that it should be eaten on Passover, calling it “The bread of suffering.”
(Deuteronomy 16:3)
I checked a couple of translations, and that phrase is word for word in there in each. A third translation renders it as as the “bread of affliction.” Which might be even more fantastic!
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My biggest issue of biblical continuity so far concerns who wrote the Ten Commandments down on the second set of tablets. In Exodus it says Moses wrote down the Ten Commandments on the tablets as dictated by God (Exodus 34.28), but in Deuteronomy 10.4 God himself wrote the Ten Commandments on the tablets.
Both books agree God wrote the down the Ten Commandments on the first set of tablets (which Moses threw down and broke when he saw the golden calf), it seems really odd that on this fairly important point the books disagree.
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