Jon Collins

They are not your life.

They are living beings.

They are not your life.

Yeah.

So that's the first command.

Don't have any other Elohim before me.

The second command just comes...

Hot on the heels of number one.

I mean, it's the next sentence.

And that's what we're going to talk about today.

Closely related.

So, right after, there will not be for you any other Elohim before me.

You will not make for yourself an idol or any likeness of what is in the skies above or on the land beneath or in the waters underneath the land.

You will not worship them.

You will not serve them.

because I, Yahweh your Elohim, am a passionate Elohim, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the threes and the fours for those who hate me, but showing loyal love to thousands for those who love me and keep my commands.

So we're looking at my translation and the opening words of the Ten Commands are, I am Yahweh your Elohim.

What's interesting is these two commands are bundled together.

There will not be any other Elohim.

You will not make for yourself an idol.