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"I am the L ORD thy God" (KJV, also "I am Yahweh your God" NJB, WEB, Hebrew: אָֽנֹכִ֖י֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑֔יךָ, romanized: ’Ānōḵî YHWH ’ĕlōheḵā, Ancient Greek: ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου, romanized: egṓ eimi ho Kúrios ho Theós sou) is the opening phrase of the Ten Commandments, which are widely understood as moral ...
God's interest in exclusive worship is portrayed as a strong jealousy, like that of a husband for his wife: Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you; for the Lord your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land. [14]
"Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, You shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy." [2] There is some debate about the meaning of the injunction to be "perfect", since orthodox Christianity teaches that creatures cannot achieve God's level of perfection.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the L ORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing ...
I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an out-stretched arm and with great acts of judgment, and I will take you for my people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out from under ...
The words God and Lord are written by some Jews as G-d and L-rd as a way of avoiding writing any name of God out in full. The hyphenated version of the English name ( G-d ) can be destroyed, so by writing that form, religious Jews prevent documents in their possession with the unhyphenated form from being destroyed later.
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"Thou shalt not take the name of the L ORD thy God in vain" (KJV; also "You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God" and variants, Biblical Hebrew: לֹא תִשָּׂא אֶת-שֵׁם-יהוה אֱלֹהֶיךָ לַשָּׁוְא, romanized: Lōʾ t̲iśśāʾ ʾet̲-šēm-YHWH ʾĕlōhēḵā laššāwəʾ ) is the second or third (depending on numbering) of God's ...