I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt that I might be your God. I am the Lord your God!”
Parallel translations
- WEB I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am Yahweh your God.”
- KJV I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.
- BSB I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD your God.”
- NKJV I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord your God.”
- NASB I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be your God; I am the Lord your God.”
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Quick answer
God identifies himself as the LORD who brought Israel out of Egypt to be their God. Their obedience flows from his prior redeeming grace.
Overview
This closing declaration grounds all the chapter's commands in God's redemptive act of the exodus and his covenant claim to be their God. Obedience is the grateful response of a redeemed people, not a means of earning his favor. So too the gospel calls believers, redeemed by Christ, to obey out of gratitude for grace already received (Titus 2:11-14).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- 1 Pet 2:9–10But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
- Ps 105:45that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!
- Lev 25:38I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
- Ezek 36:25–27I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
- Lev 22:33who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am Yahweh.”
- Jer 31:31–33“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
- Heb 11:16But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
- Jer 32:37–41“Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, where I have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them again to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:
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In the wilderness Christ is the water from the rock, the bronze serpent lifted up that the dying might look and live (John 3:14), and the star and scepter that Balaam saw rising out of Jacob.
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