Translations:Is there a "two tables" division in the Ten Commandments?/24/en

But even if the Ten Commandments summarize and (in some sense) represent the whole of God's law, they can never substitute for the details of the whole law. In fact, we cannot even understand the Ten Commandments without understanding the details of the rest of the law. "You shall not kill" means what, exactly? Are you never allowed to kill anyone? Even in self-defense? That's not what God's law says. But you wouldn't know that if you hadn't already studied the details of the law. You wouldn't know what "unlawful killing" is. You wouldn't know what "lawful killing" is.