tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jul 21 20:57:10 2002
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Re: Ten Commandments
ja' SuStel:
>Umm, I don't know anything about the original Hebrew, but doesn't the word
>"Commandments" kind of imply . . . I don't know . . . "commands"?
loQ 'IvrIt vISovmo', chaq mu' vIQIjlaH. 'IvrIt lalDan ghItlhDaq, <mu'mey>
neH luperlu'. roD "mitzvah" luponglu'. rapchu'be' "mitzvah" "commandment"
je. chaq <potlh> <ngoQ> joq 'oSlaH "mitzvah". rut "commandment" 'oH, 'ach
'opvaD motlh chut'a' 'oHbe'.
http://www.factmonster.com/ipd/A0540458.html yIHotlh. "commandments or
precepts" yIlaD.
>At least
>in the Klingon version, I'm sure that would be okay . . . .
It's okay in just about every version that exists, actually, including
scholarly commentaries on the Pentateuch.
-- ghunchu'wI'