Ver. 6-11. I am the Lord thy God This is the preface to the ten commandments, and is the same with that in ( Exodus 20:2 ) , (See Gill on Exodus 20:2), and those commands are here delivered in the same order, and pretty near in the same words, with a little variation, and a few additions; which I shall only observe, and refer to ( Exodus 20:1-17 ) for the sense of the various laws.
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The Lord spoke to you face to face from the fire on the mountain.
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(At that time I stood between you and the Lord in order to tell you what the Lord said; you were afraid of the fire, so you would not go up on the mountain.) The Lord said:
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"I am the Lord your God; I brought you out of the land of Egypt where you were slaves.
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"You must not make for yourselves any idols or anything to worship that looks like something in the sky above or on the earth below or in the water below the land.