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Exodus 20:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Exodus 20:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 20
The Ten Commandments.[a] 1 God spoke all these words:
2 “I am the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of that place of slavery. 3 You shall not have other gods instead of me.
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- Exodus 20:1 The Decalogue (“Ten Words”) is the basic law of the Covenant (there is a different version of the Decalogue in Deut 5:6-21). In fact, these words state consequences of commitment rather than laws: they show the result of denying God as Lord and deliverer (v. 2), as contrasted with belonging to the one true God. The prophets and Jesus will remind their hearers of the same requirement: the acknowledgment in the whole of one’s life that salvation is from the Lord.
