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You shall haveיִהְיֶה לְךָnoלֹאotherאֲחֵרִיםgodsאֱלֹהִיםbefore me.עַל פָּנָיַ
Exodus 20:3
Study it in the app“You shall have no other gods before me.”
Giving the law, God introduces himself as the one who brought them out of slaveryWho God IsAt Sinai, God speaks and presents himself as the one who freed his people from slaveryThe Word of God
With the Hebrew beneath
Exodus 20:3, word by word
- You shall haveיִהְיֶהyihye
exist
To exist: "let there be light".
Where else “yihye” appears- otherאֲחֵרִיםacherim
other
Other, another; next.
Where else “acherim” appears- godsאֱלֹהִיםelohim
gods
The gods of other peoples.
Where else “elohim” appears- before meפָּנָpana
before
Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.
Where else “pana” appears
Translation note
“Before me”: literally “upon my face,” that is, in my presence, in front of me.
The context
2“I am YHWH your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves.
3 · This verse (above)
4You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the waters under the earth.