Songbob: Your division corresponds with the one made by Philo of Alexandria, except that he has the first commandment begin with "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" and counts the part before that as prologue to the whole set.

The Talmud, which doesn't use the word "commandment" but instead calls them "sayings," counts the part ending with "house of bondage" as the first one. It then groups no-other-gods with the no-graven-images clauses to make the second saying.

Augustine also groups no-other-gods with no-graven-images, but calls it commandment 1. He then splits "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house" from the other no-coveting clauses to make commandments 9 and 10.

Source: The Ten Commandments at Wikipedia.

Stim: Thanks for supporting my argument. But where do you find the word "ten" in the Bible, referring to commandments? I looked, and couldn't find it. (Remember that page and chapter headings, marginal notes, etc. were added by later editors and are not part of the original text.)

Jesus quotes several of the commandments in, for example, Matthew 19:18-19, but he doesn't say there are ten; neither does Paul where he quotes them in Romans 13:9.