[Avodah] What was actually written on the luchos?

[D&E-H Bannett]

Re: RRW"s query <<How are the 10 commandments to be ... 
enumerated into different commandments according to:

   1.  Hazal?
   2. The Masoretic text - [2 different answers?]
   3.  Wolf Heidenheim?>>

As you want to count ten commandments separated into ten 
sentences rather than have conveneient reading without 
unusually long or short sentences, you must choose the ta'am 
elyon.

If you want to follow what you term "masoretic text", you 
would have more than two answers as there are many versions 
including those that do not have ten p'sukim.

R' Mordekhai Breuer z"l has analyzed the history of the 
changes to get to what he calls the correct or original 
version of the ta'amim and sentences for both ta'am elyon 
and ta'am tachton. I think, therefore, that his version is 
the best.

You do not list R' Breuer as a source. Although Breuer 
points out the errors in Heidenheim's analysis, his version 
for the ta'am elyon is the same as Breuer's so, if you 
prefer him, you can appoint Heidenheim as your commandment 
divider.


k"t,

David