I am the Lord thy God

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"I am the LORD thy God" (KJV, Hebrew: אָֽנֹכִ֖י֙ יְהֹוָ֣ה 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 imperatives by ancient legal historians and Christian and Jewish biblical scholars. Chapter 20 of the Book of Exodus begins: And God spake all these words, saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. The conventional "the Lord" written in small caps in English translations renders יהוה in the Hebrew text (transliterated "YHWH"), the proper name of the God of Israel, reconstructed by modern scholars as Yahweh. The translation "God" renders אֱלֹהִים (transliterated "Elohim"), the normal biblical Hebrew word for "god, deity". The introduction to the Ten Commandments establishes the identity of God by both his personal name and his historical act of delivering...

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