Commentary for Sanhedrin 112:18

אי הכי מאי והוסיפו עליהן דינין

'the Sabbath and honouring one's parents'. for it is written, As the Lord thy God commanded thee!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. V, 16. This occurs in the fifth commandment of the second Decalogue. Similar words are used in the fourth commandment: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day. In both cases then there is a reference to some previous event, shewn by the use of the past tense: commanded thee. Now the second Decalogue, though spoken by Moses towards the end of his life in the plains of Moab many years after the first at Sinai, was nevertheless a repetition thereof. Therefore this reference back must have been made in the first promulgation also, and can only relate to Marah, where, as stated above, 'he made for them a statute and an ordinance', i.e., gave certain laws to the the Israelites. ');">¹⁹</span>

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