No, I don't. Do you think that Jesus was saying that the Pharisees were failing to keep the commandment to kill the son who curses his parents?John, you wrote: Do you think that Jesus is indicating that both statements of Moses are synonymous with God's commandments and that they were failing to keep God's commandments?
I think that He was indicating that the statement, "Honor your father and mother," was God's commandment. Indeed, it is one of the ten commandments that God gave to Moses. It is found in Exodus 20:12. The second statement seems to have been taken from Exodus 21:17, "And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death." That set of instructions begins with 20:22, "Then the LORD said to Moses..." Putting such a son to death by no means exhausts the commands that I think came from Moses' own mind. Consider another one from the same set that is supposed to be one of God's commands:
Does this seem like God to you? The master gives his slave a wife, and she bears the slave's children. But if the slave goes free after his 7th year of service, he cannot take his wife with him, but she and his children must be left behind, and belong to his master. However, the next two verses indicate that the slave may keep his wife and children, on one condition, that he serve his master permanently.Exodus 21
2 When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.
3 If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.
4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out alone.
Did God really give this instruction? If not, why is it so hard to believe that he did not give the instruction to kill a son who has cursed his parents?5 But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’
6 then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.
Again, I don't think Moses was trying to deceive his readers by saying that such commands were God's in order to justify his administrative powers and methods. Rather, I think that he actually believed his thoughts as to how to regulate the lives of such a large company were planted there by God. There are many people in our own day that do much the same. I'm sure you have heard numerous people claim, "God told me to ..." or "God told me that ...," whereas many of the things that God supposedly told them are totally contrary to God's character. I go by Jesus' description of God's character, that God is kind to both ungrateful people and to evil people—that God sends sunshine and rain both to the righteous and the unrighteous. Therefore, said Jesus, we should show ourselves truly to be children of God by loving, blessing, praying for, and being kind to those who hate us or persecute us.