Good Morning!

Could anyone tell me if the 10 commandments in the Dead Sea writings coincide with the Masoretic Pentateuch?

Since it diverges from the Samaritan Pentateuch, it becomes difficult to decide which source is more reliable, older!

Thanks!

Robert said
Hi, Daniel. In general, the Samaritan Pentateuch harmonizes the differences that are found in the two versions of the 10 commandments in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 in the Masoretic text and adds the Mt Gerazim 10th commandment. In the Qumran texts, there’s hardly anything preserved from the Exodus 20 version of the 10 commandments, while the texts associated with the Deuteronomy version of the 10 commandments at Qumran tend to agree with the Masoretic text and do not have the Mt Gerazim 10th commandment. There may be some harmonization in the Sabbath commandment, but that is a general scribal phenomenon not exclusive to the Samaritan Pentateuch. If you have a more specific question about these texts, I can look them up and quote them for you.

  

Thank you very much
You have already answered my question!