Ten Commandments verse, is used for public Torah reading, while the "ta'am tachton" (lower accentuation), which divides the text into verses of more even length, is used for private reading or study. The verse numbering in Jewish Bibles follows the "ta'am tachton". In Jewish Bibles the references to the Ten Commandments are therefore and . The Samaritan Pentateuch varies in the Ten Commandments passages, both in that the Samaritan Deuteronomical version of the passage is much closer to that in Exodus, and in that Samaritans count as nine commandments what others count as ten. The Samaritan tenth commandment is on the sanctity
Alternatives to the Ten Commandments then added a third additional commandment. Christopher Hitchens was an English American author, columnist, essayist, orator, religious and literary critic, social critic and journalist. His new Ten Commandments are: Richard Dawkins is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. These are the alternative to the Ten Commandments, cited by Dawkins in his book "The God Delusion": Dawkins uses these proposed commandments to make a larger point that "it is the sort of list that any ordinary, decent person today would come up with". He then adds four more of his own devising: Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician,