See? That wasn't so hard, now was it?
I find it interesting you reject the Deuteronomy word order for the coveting passages.
I'm not surprised
you went with the Septuagint numbering, favored by Orthodox and Reformed Christians. It makes sense you'd go with the numbering preferred by Calvinists. Your professed theology and commitment to genetic guilt is saturated with implied predestination.
Still, your rejection of the Talmudic numbering is in conflict with your professed, yet demonstrably unlived, fetishization of the Mitzvot. It's not surprising, however, given some of the rather harsh things you had to say about people who followed the grooming and clothing laws in the Mitzvot.
Your rejection of Exodus 20:2 as the first commandment is, however, consistent with your rejection of Passover, despite your endless empty claims about the importance of the Mitzvot. Your overt rejection of a spiritual connection to the Exodus is highlighted by your choice for the Ten Commandments. It's strange how you claim one moment that there's been no change in the covenant, yet a post or two later make it clear you believe the covenant has been fundamentally altered.
Exodus 20:2 is an introduction, not a command.
A man asked Jesus what was necessary to eternal life and his answer was—
Mat 19:16 Now a man came up to Jesus and asked, "Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?"
Mat 19:17 "Why do you ask me about what is good?" Jesus replied. "There is only One who is good.
If you want to enter life, obey the commandments."
Mat 19:18 "Which ones?" the man inquired. Jesus replied,
"'Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony
Mat 19:19 honor your father and mother,' and 'love your neighbor as yourself.'",
Mat 19:20 "All these I have kept," the young man said. "What do I still lack?"
So the commands are what is required to get eternal life.
The Covenant is the same nothing has been altered.
The Ten Commands were those that were spoken by Yahweh, and they are referred to as the Covenant—the Book of the law contained additional commands, and the whole revelation in the Torah is also referred to as the Covenant Yahweh made with the Hebrew nation.
Deut_29:1 These are the terms of the Covenant the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in Moab,
in addition to the Covenant he had made with them at Horeb.
Horeb as you know is where Yahweh spoke the Ten Commands.
Deuteronomy is a summary of what took place in the past—changing the sequence does not change what is inscribed on the stone tablets—I find it interesting that the covetable sequence put “coveting a man’s wife as priority”.
Another might put lying as a priority, or stealing—it is as Jesus stated--- Matthew 19:18 "Which ones?" the man inquired. Jesus replied,
"'Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony honor your father and mother,' and 'love your neighbor as yourself.'",
The grooming and clothing laws are external laws, what is required is an inward devotion, in the teachings of Jesus he emphasized Spirit and truth were required to worship God, even putting the Temple as not essential.
(Joh 4:21 Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
John 4:22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
John 4:23
Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
John 4:24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."
So Jesus introduces a new way in which to worship the Creator, but at the same time does not invalidate the commands but shows a superior way, based on the old way.
So the new superior way shows what the Creator intended, using the old way to prepare people.
So now that the Temple is gone, where does Yahweh dwell--- Exo_25:8 "Then have them make a sanctuary for me,
and I will dwell among them.
So now the believer has the Presence of Yahweh dwelling in them as they
become the Temple.
Paul states--- Eph 2:18 For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
Eph 2:19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household,
Eph 2:20
built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.
Eph 2:21 In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord.
Eph 2:22 And in him you too are being built together to become
a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.
So now there is a superior way that the Creator has inaugurated.
2Co_6:16 What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols?
For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people."
But you did not know this, that is why you cannot understand prophecy.