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But Moses then proceeds to contextualize the commandments from their original wording as we read in Parshat Yitro. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the Maharal, the version that\u2019s told here was framed in Moses\u2019 own words, in a way that he believed would match the recipients\u2019 capacity to understand them. Two of the many differences between the two tellings of the Ten Commandments are in the form of \u00a0additional phrases. To the commandment of honoring one\u2019s parents \u201cin order to lengthen your days on the land\u201d Moses added \u201cin order for it to be good for you on the land.\u201d And to the commandment to not be jealous of your fellow\u2019s house, wife, servants, animals or anything that belongs to him, Moses added \u201chis field\u201d to the list. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The addition of experiencing \u00a0\u201cgood in your land\u201d and not being jealous of your fellow\u2019s fields would have fallen on deaf ears if specified to the Bnei Yisrael in the Book of Exodus, who had only just come out of Egypt with no capacity to think about having their own fields, never mind their own land. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moses, being the astute leader he was, recognized that part of his role as the messenger of these commandments from God was to package them according to how they could best be consumed. And lest we think that, God forbid, Moses transgressed by adding to God\u2019s words, his retelling of the commandments to the B&#8217;nei Yisrael is immediately followed by God telling B&#8217;nei Yisrael to return to their tents while Moses stays behind to receive all of the details of these commandments. 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