I am the Lord your God, or I am Yahweh your God, is the opening phrase of the Ten Commandments, a list of religious and moral imperatives that, according to the Bible, were authored by God and given to Moses in the form of two stone tablets. The Ten Commandments begin: The name Yahweh is the personal (proper) name of God that was revealed to Moses in the account of the bush.

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  • I am the Lord your God, or I am Yahweh your God, is the opening phrase of the Ten Commandments, a list of religious and moral imperatives that, according to the Bible, were authored by God and given to Moses in the form of two stone tablets. The Ten Commandments begin: The name Yahweh is the personal (proper) name of God that was revealed to Moses in the account of the bush. Many English translations render the Hebrew YHWH as “L” or “Jehovah” but modern scholarship suggests that “Yahweh” is a more reasonable English rendering. The introduction to the Ten Commandments establishes the identity of God by both his personal name and his historical act of delivering Israel from Egypt. The language and pattern reflects that of ancient royal treaties in which a great king identified himself and his previous gracious acts toward a subject king or people. Establishing his identity through the use of the proper name, Yahweh, and his mighty acts in history distinguishes Yahweh from the gods of Egypt which were judged in the killing of Egypt’s firstborn, and from the gods of Canaan, the gods of the gentile nations, and the gods that are worshipped as idols, starry hosts, or things found in nature, and the gods known by other proper names. So distinguished, Yahweh demands exclusive allegiance. “I am the L your God” occurs a number of other times in the Bible also.
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  • I am the Lord your God, or I am Yahweh your God, is the opening phrase of the Ten Commandments, a list of religious and moral imperatives that, according to the Bible, were authored by God and given to Moses in the form of two stone tablets. The Ten Commandments begin: The name Yahweh is the personal (proper) name of God that was revealed to Moses in the account of the bush.
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