Why does the list of the Ten Commandments published in Jewish writings differ from the common biblical one?
There also seems to be a disagreement among some Christian denominations on how to identify them. There is general agreement on the fact that there are 10 commandments, because in Deuteronomy 4:13 they are called “the ten words.” Some Bible translations have rendered the phrase “ten commandments,” but the Hebrew text reads “words,” that is to say, 10 divine legal sayings. According to Philo of Alexandria and Josephus, the first commandment is contained in Exodus 20:2, 3, stating that Yahweh is one (“I am Yahweh”) and the only one to be worshiped (“You shall have no. . .”). The second would be the prohibition against worship of images, and so forth. This division was the one accepted by the Church Fathers and is basically the prevailing one today. The common Jewish division of the Decalogue, which is probably the one you found, considers verse 2 to be the first commandment, a command to believe that there is only one God, Yahweh. The second one, recorded in verses 3-6, would command the
