Movie Prop Stone Tablets

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These “props” of the two stone tablets of the Ten Commandments which have been shown with their story on YourProps.com were made in one day for the 1957 movie production The Ten Commandments.

Even though they are a styrofoam-like material, painted to look like stone tablets, the language and alphabet painted on them is authentic Paleo-Hebrew. We encountered this photo on the Web after we had created our own Paleo-Hebrew handwriting font.

The font is posted on our site to bolster the fact that the scholars who were consulted for the movie production also thought, or had reason to believe, that the actual Stone Tablets of the Testimony were written in Paleo-Hebrew.

The Nine Commandments?

Upon closer observation, Tracy Potts noticed that there were some errors in the Paleo-Hebrew text of the movie prop stone tablets. In addition to the Commandments being written in an abbreviated format, there were some letters missing that should have been in the text. The startling thing is that, when translated, it becomes glaringly obvious that the stone tablet props used in the movie production that nearly everyone has seen have only nine commandments written on them. The Third Commandment is missing entirely! You, too, will be able to see that omission in our Interlinear Translation of the Movie Prop Stone Tablets.

Please note that the two props used in the movie sold at auction for over $68,000! And those tablets were missing Paleo-Hebrew letters and the entire Third Commandment. After you have had an opportunity to look over our authentic re-creations of the Two Stone Tablets, the ones used for the movie look less and less like “really good replicas.”

Where Did You Get the Idea for the Two Stone Tablets?

The re-created Two Stone Tablets project exists because we are of the firm conviction that the Elohim (God) of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob has called us to re-create the Two Stone Tablets with the western world’s first authentic replica since the time they were carried off Mount Sinai by Moses (Moshe) some 3500 years ago.

What Do The Two Stone Tablets Look Like?

The re-created Tablets are rough-hewn, just as were the ones written on by the Finger of YHWH. The granite Tablets are about sixteen inches (40cm) wide, about nineteen inches (47.5cm) high, and about two inches (4.7cm) thick. Their coloration is red-brown, with scattered dark splotching as a result of iron oxidation, virtually identical to the color of the granite of the mountain chain where we believe Mount Sinai was located. The Tablets are displayed on a specially designed table with two lazy susans that allow the Tablets to turn freely front to back.

Why Should My Congregation Acquire the Two Stone Tablets?

They are written in the same type of writing (Phoenician Paleo-Hebrew) as was written by the Finger of Elohim—according to Scripture. They contain His own Testimony in His own words as to His Name (Yahweh) and Who He Is—our Eloh (Mighty One); as well as His commandments regarding how we are to live our lives. And when we take His Testimony on its own terms in the original language we will experience a paradigm shift—a shift toward What and Who He is actually is and away from who we want Him to be so that He fits comfortably into our own paradigm.

Since there are no other known places on earth where His Name as He gave it has been remembered in this manner, perhaps the most important consideration for acquiring these authentic Two Stone Tablets is the further testimony given by Yahweh as recorded in Exodus (Sh’Mot) 20v24, “In every place where I cause My Name to be remembered I will come to you and I will bless you.”