The Ten Commandements...?

The following is an excerpt from the Egyptian "Book of the Dead" and is know as the negative confession...

THE NEGATIVE CONFESSION:
(1) Ani saith: "Hail, thou whose strides are long, who comest forth from Annu, I have not done iniquity."
(2) "Hail, thou who art embraced by flame, who comest forth from Kheraba, I have not robbed with
violence."
(3) "Hail, Fentiu, who comest forth from Khemennu, I have not stolen."
(4) "Hail, Devourer of the Shade, who comest forth from Qernet, I have done no murder; I have done no
harm."
(5) "Hail, Nehau, who comest forth from Re-stau, I have not defrauded offerings."
(6) "Hail, god in the form of two lions, who comest forth from heaven, I have not minished oblations."
(7) "Hail, thou whose eyes are of fire, who comest forth from Saut, I have not plundered the god."
(8) "Hail, thou Flame, which comest and goest, I have spoken no lies."
(9) "Hail, Crusher of bones, who comest forth from Suten-henen, I have not snatched away food."
(10) "Hail, thou who shootest forth the Flame, who comest forth from Het-Ptah-ka, I have not caused
pain."
(11) "Hall, Qerer, who comest forth from Amentet, I have not committed fornication."
(12) "Hail, thou whose face is turned back, who comest forth from thy hiding place, I have not caused
shedding of tears."
(13) "Hail, Bast, who comest forth from the secret place, I have not dealt deceitfully."
(14) "Hail, thou whose legs are of fire, who comest forth out of the darkness, I have not transgressed."
(15) "Hail, Devourer of Blood, who comest forth from the block of slaughter, I have not acted
guilefully."
(16) "Hail, Devourer of the inward parts, who comest forth from Mabet, I have not laid waste the
ploughed land."
(17) "Hail, Lord of Right and Truth, who comest forth from the city of Right and Truth, I have not been
an eavesdropper."
(18) "Hail, thou who dost stride backwards, who comest forth from the city of Bast, I have not set my
lips in motion [against any man]."
(19) "Hail, Sertiu, who comest forth from Annu, I have not been angry and wrathful except for a just
cause."
(20) "Hail, thou. being of two-fold wickedness, who comest forth from Ati (?) I have not defiled the wife
of any man."
(21) "Hail, thou two-headed serpent, who comest forth from the torture-chamber, I have not defiled the
wife of any man."
(22) "Hail, thou who dost regard what is brought unto thee, who comest forth from Pa-Amsu, I have not
polluted myself."
(23) "Hail, thou Chief of the mighty, who comest forth from Amentet, I have not caused terror."
(24) "Hail, thou Destroyer, who comest forth from Kesiu, I have not transgressed."
(25) "Hail, thou who orderest speech, who comest forth from Urit, I have not burned with rage."
(26) "Hail, thou Babe, who comest forth from Uab, I have not stopped my ears against the words of
Right and Truth."
(27) "Hail, Kenemti, who comest forth from Kenemet, I have not worked grief"
(28) "Hail, thou who bringest thy offering, I have not acted with insolence."
(30) "Hail, Lord of faces, who comest forth from Netchfet, I have not judged hastily."
(31) "Hail, Sekheriu, who comest forth from Utten, I have not been an eavesdropper."
(32) "Hail, Lord of the two horns, who comest forth from Saïs, I have not multiplied words exceedingly."
(33) "Hail, Nefer-Tmu, who comest forth from Het-Ptah-ka, I have done neither harm nor ill."
(34) "Hail, Tmu in thine hour, who comest forth from Tattu, I have never cursed the king."
(35) "Hail, thou who workest with thy will, who comest forth from Tebu, I have never fouled the water."
(36) "Hail, thou bearer of the sistrum, who comest forth from Nu, I have not spoken scornfully."
(37) "Hail, thou who makest mankind to flourish, who comest forth from Saïs, I have never cursed God."
(38) "Flail, Neheb-ka, who comest forth from thy hiding place, I have not stolen."
(39) "Hail, Neheb-nefert, who comest forth from thy hiding place, I have not defrauded the offerings of
the gods."
(40) "Hail, thou who dost set in order the head, who comest forth from thy shrine, I have not plundered
the offerings to the blessed dead."
(40 "Hail, thou who bringest thy arm, who comest forth from the city of Maati, I have not filched the
food of the infant, neither have I sinned against the god of my native town."
(42) "Hail, thou whose teeth are white, who comest forth from Ta-she, I have not slaughtered with evil
intent the cattle of the god."

If one were to eliminate the redundancies and extraneous wording, simplify it and clean it up a bit, then you would end up with:

1	“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2	“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.
3	“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
4	“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
5	“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
6	“You shall not murder.
7	“You shall not commit adultery.
8	“You shall not steal.
9	“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10	“You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.”

Of interest to note here is that the religion of the Hebrews who fled Egypt was actually the Egyptian religion... which was the original precursor to modern Judaism as well as Christianity. That being the case, it is fair and reasonable to assert that Hebrew religion and mysticism alike are in all actuality Egyptian in origin. Another interesting point is the name of the little nation of Israel... a contraction of three names: Isis, Ra, and El. Isis and Ra of Egyptian worship, and El of Semitic. The Egyptian religion preceded Christianity by roughly 1500-2000 years, with the Book of the Dead being in use from around 1550 BCE.

Now this really begs the question...
Did Moses light that bush on fire himself so he would have a light to see by at night as he carved the abbreviated negative confession onto stone tablets himself? I mean it was what... forty days he was up there on the mount? Surely if the finger of God had inscribed the negative confession... er... ten commandments on two stone tablets it would have taken less time than that.

The point is, the Bible and other religious texts are written by the hands of Men. Tailored specifically to invoke fear in the interest of control. Control of beliefs, attitudes, opinions, and behaviours. Interestingly Mass Media and Government serve identically that same purpose... but do we go around making wild claims that some unseen Divine force made that film or wrote those Laws...? For the record, the word "government" is derived from two words of the old Latin language. Those words are "guber" and "mente". Translated, quite literally I might add, they mean Mind Control!