The Torah contains many different legal codes, a distinction and comparison between them enlightens us to the fact that the same persons did not write them and that the different authors did not have the same background, perhaps not even the same culture. Nevertheless, in comparing the Ten Commandments and the Book of the Covenant, one notices the similarities more so than the differences, one would say that the vast majority of laws in the Book of the Covenant have a respective law in the Ten Commandments. From this one establishes that these legal codes have a common purpose.

Scholars recognize seven different law codes in the Torah and speculate that they were combined during the Babylonian exile, yet it is not necessary to read all the codes to notice the differences in writing style, emphasis, and details. These differences are very apparent in the Ten Commandments and...