Peter Explains His Actions - The apostles and the believers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him and said, “You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them.” Starting from the beginning, Peter told them the whole story: “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. I saw something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to where I was.
Came in here to point this exact technicality out.
I don't personally follow any others, but my professor in my college Old Testament course pointed out the for want of better words, loophole.
@Mendie_Taoma @hypostase I could not say how the commandment was originally phrased, but the German and the English version already differ significantly.
Due to the nature of the language, loopholes are more common in English then in German.
There's a lot in Talmud about the Ten Commandments: we'll never know what the first version of the Ten Commandment were - or even if there were ten.
Conjecture has it that God made sure the first five * commandments in the second version were about how those idolatrous Israelites could have no other gods before him
* or six, depends how you count 'em.
I mean, ten commandments, formatted as a bullet point list, is exactly what chatgpt would write.
Coincidence? I think not.