Exodus 20:1
And the Lord spoke all these words:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And God spake all these words, saying,
In Context
2I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:33That a people should hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of fire, as thou hast heard, and lived:
Deuteronomy 5:4He spoke to us face to face in the mount out of the midst of fire.
Deuteronomy 5:22These words the Lord spoke to all the multitude of you in the mountain, out of the midst of the fire and the cloud, and the darkness, with a loud voice, adding nothing more: and he wrote them in two tables of stone, which he delivered unto me.
Acts 7:53Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 20:1
All things being prepared for the solemn promulgation of the divine law, we have, in this chapter, I. The ten commandments, as God himself spoke them upon Mount Sinai ( ver. 1-17 ), as remarkable a portion of scripture as any in the Old Testament. II. The impressions made upon the people thereby, ver. 18-21 . III. Some particular instructions which God gave privately to Moses, to be by him communicated to the people, relating to his worship, ver. 22 , &c. Read the whole commentary →