The 6th Commandment

In the Bible, the Ten Commandments are mentioned three times. The first time, God simply told Moses the commandments. The second time, God wrote the commandments on stone...and the third time God gave Moses some replacement commandment stones for the ones he (Moses) broke when he got pissed off at his tribe. It is very odd that these commandments are different from one moment to another...for instance, in the third and final set of commandments, the tenth commandment is actually "Though shalt not seethe a kid in it's mother's milk." You would think God could keep things straight, given the apparent importance. In any case, this is what the sixth commandment really means-

"Thou shalt not kill." Ex. 20, 13.

All 'thou shall not kill' meant is that thou shall not kill another Hebrew. The giver of the commandment, Moses, continued to order genocide, murder, a scorched earth policy and 'ethnic cleansing' on all of his enemies, and all with God's blessing. 'Thou shall not kill' was not understood by Moses, or the Israelites, or 'God' to be any kind of a moral or ethical prohibition of killing.