Exodus 20:2
New International Version
“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

New Living Translation
“I am the LORD your God, who rescued you from the land of Egypt, the place of your slavery.

English Standard Version
“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Berean Standard Bible
“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

King James Bible
I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

New King James Version
“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

New American Standard Bible
“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

NASB 1995
“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

NASB 1977
“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Legacy Standard Bible
“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Amplified Bible
“I am the LORD your God, who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Christian Standard Bible
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.

American Standard Version
I am Jehovah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“I AM LORD JEHOVAH your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt from the house of bondage.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Contemporary English Version
I am the LORD your God, the one who brought you out of Egypt where you were slaves.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

English Revised Version
I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of slavery in Egypt.

Good News Translation
"I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, where you were slaves.

International Standard Version
"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

JPS Tanakh 1917
I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Literal Standard Version
“I [am] your God YHWH, who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants.

Majority Standard Bible
“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

New American Bible
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

NET Bible
"I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

New Revised Standard Version
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery;

New Heart English Bible
"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Webster's Bible Translation
I am the LORD thy God, who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

World English Bible
“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Young's Literal Translation
I am Jehovah thy God, who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants.

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Context
The Ten Commandments
1And God spoke all these words: 2“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3You shall have no other gods before Me.…

Cross References
Exodus 6:6
Therefore tell the Israelites: 'I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.

Exodus 13:3
So Moses told the people, "Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for the LORD brought you out of it by the strength of His hand. And nothing leavened shall be eaten.

Exodus 15:13
With loving devotion You will lead the people You have redeemed; with Your strength You will guide them to Your holy dwelling.

Exodus 15:16
and terror and dread will fall on them. By the power of Your arm they will be as still as a stone until Your people pass by, O LORD, until the people You have bought pass by.

Exodus 15:26
saying, "If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you."

Exodus 20:1
And God spoke all these words:

Exodus 29:46
And they will know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt so that I might dwell among them. I am the LORD their God.


Treasury of Scripture

I am the LORD your God, which have brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

the Lord

Genesis 17:7,8
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee…

Leviticus 26:1,13
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God…

Deuteronomy 5:6
I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

brought

Exodus 10:1
And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him:

Exodus 11:1
And the LORD said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.

Exodus 12:1
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

out of the

Exodus 13:3
And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.

Deuteronomy 5:15
And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

Deuteronomy 7:8
But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

bondage.

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Exodus 20
1. The ten commandments are spoken by Jehovah
18. The people are afraid, but Moses comforts them
21. Idolatry is forbidden
23. Of what sort the altar should be














(2) I am the Lord thy God.--The binding nature of commands upon the conscience depends upon the authority of the person who issues them. That there might be no dispute as to what the authority was in the case of the Decalogue, God prefaced the commands themselves by this distinct statement. By whomsoever they were communicated (see the first Note on Exodus 20:1), they were the commands of Jehovah Himself.

Which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.--Thus exhibiting at once Almighty power and the tenderest compassion and care. God desires the obedience which springs from love, not fear.

Verse 2. - I am the Lord thy God. The ten precepts were prefaced by this distinct announcement of who it was that uttered them. God would have the Israelites clearly understand, that he himself gave them the commandments. It is only possible to reconcile the declarations of the New Testament, that the law was given by the ministration of angels (Acts 7:53; Galatians 3:19; Hebrews 2:2) with this and other plain statements, by regarding God the Son as the actual speaker. As sent by his father, he too was, in a certain sense, an angel (i.e., a messenger). Which brought thee out of the land of Egypt. God does not appeal to his authority as creator, but to his mercy and kindness as protector and deliverer. He would be obeyed by his people from a sentiment of love, not by fear. Out of the house of bondage. Compare Exodus 13:3, 14; and for the ground of the expression, see Exodus 1:14; Exodus 6:9.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
“I
אָֽנֹכִ֖י֙ (’ā·nō·ḵî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 595: I

am the LORD
יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

your God,
אֱלֹהֶ֑֔יךָ (’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

who
אֲשֶׁ֧ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

brought you out
הוֹצֵאתִ֛יךָ (hō·w·ṣê·ṯî·ḵā)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - first person common singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

of the land
מֵאֶ֥רֶץ (mê·’e·reṣ)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 776: Earth, land

of Egypt,
מִצְרַ֖יִם (miṣ·ra·yim)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4714: Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa

out of the house
מִבֵּ֣֥ית (mib·bêṯ)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1004: A house

of slavery.
עֲבָדִֽ֑ים׃ (‘ă·ḇā·ḏîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 5650: Slave, servant


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