AN AK ANCIENT VERSION OF OE TIM THE A cablegram from ondon london Ii to the new york ahn anns dated august Is as follows A mr of jerusalem bookseller and dealer in antiquaries antiqua anti antl quarles ries rles has just deposit deposited od in the british museum 15 alapa allpa of black sheepskin leather on which are written in characters similar to those on the celebrated stone portions of the book of deuteronomy differing materially from the received version the date of the tha slips is the ninth century before christ or sixteen centuries older than any authentic manuscript of any part of the old testament mr bought them from an arab and he asks for them from the british museum if genuine the interest and importance import ancs anca of thedis the discovery cannot be overrated overrate ds and so far as the variations in sacred text are concerned there is promise of one of the greatest greh greb tesi test controversies that scholars have ever entered upon the decalogue famishes a good example for comparison with the received versions I 1 3 quote from the record 1 iam I lam am god thy god godi which liberated thee nhom from the tha land of egypt from the tho house ot bondan els ees ye shall ha have va no othor other godl ye ahall shall not make mako to you yourselves any knaven kraven image nor any auy likeness that Is in heaven beaven above or that Is la in tha the earth beneath beneat ht or that la is in tho the waters under the tho earth ye shall shail no t bow down to them nor serve them jam god thy god in elx bix days oars I 1 have made mad the tha heaven and the tho earth and all th that at there la therein and rested on the seventh day therefore rest rast thou albo SISO 9 thou and thy cattle and au that thou hast imn I 1 am god thy god honor thy nat fat herand fatherland mathen bathen and thy mother iam lam SW god thy god thou not noh commit adultery with the wife of thy Sf ww I 1 am goa god thy god th ou hait halt not steal the I 1 am god thy god thou not swear by my name ral rai falsely sebr for I 1 visit tuft the equity iniquity of cf fathers upon the tho children unto the tho third and fourth those who take my name in fu vain I 1 am god thy god goa thou halt hait not bear ear raise falbe witness against thy brot brothen brother hez bez I 1 am god thy god thou not covet his wms or hia hla man servant or h his maid mald ser blant vanti or anything that la is hib bib I 1 am god thy god thou ahalt not hito hite thy broth brother brothen in thy hearn heart I 1 am god thy god cheso ten mon words god dr ginsburg the eminent jewish scholar scholars to whom gladstone has just given 50 for the production ot of his work on the madorah Ma sorab has deciphered the above and is busy completing the translation and determining on behalf of the museum the genus gents ceness of the fragments