are there different versions of the 10 commandments ?

[Rev. Rye]

Exodus 34: (The covenant of God)
10 Then the Lord said: “I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the Lord, will do for you. 11 Obey what I command you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 12 Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you. 13 Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.[] 14 Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
15 “Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices. 16 And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will lead your sons to do the same.
17 “Do not make any idols.
18 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt.
19 “The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock. 20 Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn sons.
“No one is to appear before me empty-handed.
21 “Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.
22 “Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the year.[b] 23 Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord, the God of Israel. 24 I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the Lord your God.
25 “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning.
26 “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.
“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
27 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” 28 Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

Get it???

This is not a list of the 10 commandments This is a covenant who contains some of the commandments and adds other stipulations!

This is God 'selling' his will to the people. Do this (Which includes the 10 commandments) and you will get this in return.

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How does it feel to have one of your greatest atheistic mind crumble before the first verse.. meaning How stupid is hitch for calling this a revision of the 10 commandments when clearly in the first line God Himself identifies what follows to be a covenant???

I can't help but notice verse 28 actually calls it "The Ten Commandments", but that neither the versions in Exodus 20 and Deutoronomy 5 are called "The Ten Commandments." They are called commandments (and Jewish tradition states that Jahweh gave Moses a total of 613, all of which appear in the Torah [the first five books], which is why simply being called commandments is not enough), and can easily be grouped into groups of ten, but, despite the fact that the Israelites latched onto the other set, they are never called the Ten Commandments in the actual Torah. Meanwhile, the version in Exodus 34, the less familiar one, actually is called "The Ten Commandments." See for youself.

You will notice that I decided to play your "large letters with bold text" game with that specific passage. I just wanted to make sure you weren't missing anything this time around, like you did when you posted it just now. And just so you decided to miss the connection, I added some italics that connect the covenant with the Ten Commandments.

Knowing you, I can't expect it will sink in, since you've clearly spent so much time focusing on those two, but you can't say I didn't explain exactly why I don't buy your claim.