Deuteronomy 5:6 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Deuteronomy 5:6

4 ^aThe Lord talked with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire.

5 ^aI stood between the Lord and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the Lord; for ^byou were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up the mountain. He said:

6 ^a‘I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of¹ bondage.

7 ^a‘You shall have no other gods¹ before Me.

8 ^a‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;

9 you shall not ^abow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God,² visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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I am the Lord thy God—The word "Lord" is expressive of authority or dominion; and God, who by natural claim as well as by covenant relation was entitled to exercise supremacy over His people Israel, had a sovereign right to establish laws for their government. [See on Exodus 20:2.] The commandments which follow are, with a few slight verbal alterations, the same as formerly recorded (Exo. 20:1-17), and in some of them there is a distinct reference to that promulgation.

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