And God spake all these words, saying,
Parallel translations
- WEB God spoke all these words, saying,
- BSB And God spoke all these words:
- NKJV And God spoke all these words, saying:
- NASB Then God spoke all these words, saying,
- NLT Then God gave the people all these instructions:
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Quick answer
God Himself spoke all these words, introducing the Ten Commandments. The moral law comes directly from the mouth of God.
Overview
This solemn introduction stresses that the commandments are God's own authoritative speech, not human invention. The Decalogue forms the heart of the covenant and a summary of God's abiding moral will. Christ did not abolish this law but fulfilled it and deepened its meaning (Matt. 5:17), and by His Spirit enables His people to keep it.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Deut 5:22These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
- Deut 5:4The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
- Deut 4:36Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
- Acts 7:38This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
- Deut 4:33Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
- Acts 7:53Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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