Exodus 20:3 KJV — MannaFest

Exodus 20:3

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

KJV

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ASV

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

WEB

You shall have no other gods before Me.

YLT

`Thou hast no other Gods before Me.

DBT

Thou shalt have no othergods before me.

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Exodus — Deliverance, covenant, presence. A slave-people redeemed from Egypt, brought to Sinai, and given a tabernacle so that God might dwell among them.

Author: Moses — traditional attribution; internal narrator identifies Moses as recorder (17:14, 24:4, 34:27)
Date: 15th or 13th century BC, depending on chronology of the exodus

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Deuteronomy 5:7
Thou shalt have none other gods before me.
Matthew 4:10
Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
Psalms 81:9
There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
Isaiah 46:9
Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
2 Corinthians 6:16
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

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This was the sin they were most in danger of now that the world was so overspread with polytheism, which yet could not be rooted out effectually but by the gospel of Christ. The sin against this commandment which we are most in danger of is giving the glory and honour to any creature which are due to God only.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Thou shalt not make . . . any graven image . . . thou shalt not bow down thyself to them--that is, "make in order to bow." Under the auspices of Moses himself, figures of cherubim, brazen serpents, oxen, and many other things in the earth beneath, were made and never condemned. The mere making was no sin--it was the making with the intent to give idolatrous worship.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

By redeeming them, he acquired a farther right to rule them; they owed their service to him, to whom they owed their freedom. And thus, Christ, having rescued us out of the bondage of sin, is entitled to the best service we can do him.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

That it is a sin that dares him to his face, which he cannot, will not, overlook. The second commandment is concerning the ordinances of worship, or the way in which God will be worshipped, which it is fit himself should appoint. The prohibition; we are forbidden to worship even the true God by images, ver. 4, 5.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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