Jon Collins

You'll become numerous, and Yahweh your God will bless you in the land that you're going.

Sounds like the Garden of Eden.

Later on in paragraph, verse 19, he says, I bring forward as a witness against y'all today the skies and the land.

I have set before you life and death and

Blessing and curse choose life so that you can have life, you and your offspring, by loving Yahweh and listening to your voice, clinging to Him, this is rad, because He is your life.

He is your length of days.

Such a great way to summarize that.

God is your life.

God is life, which rings true to the seven-day creation narrative and the Eden story.

God is the source of life.

And so what God's commands will always, even if they don't feel like it or seem like it in the moment, point God's people towards embracing even more life than you're currently experiencing and avoiding the diminishment of your life.

That is death.

There you go.

It's a great summary.

Now jumping right into the 10 commands.

Yeah, let's jump in.

Okay.

I am Yahweh, your Elohim, the one who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

There will not be for you any other Elohim left.

Against my face.