1 And God spoke all these words, saying: 2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of [a]bondage. 3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.
“And God spoke all these words: ‘I am Yahweh your God,'" Yahweh is the unique name by which the one true God distinguished Himself in the Old Testament from all other gods— “I am Yahweh , that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to graven images.” (Isaiah 42:8) “It means the 'Self-Existing One or the Eternal One.' This concept also appears in the phrases 'I AM THAT I AM' and 'I AM,' used by God of Himself. …Yahweh is the third person form of the verb 'to be' in Hebrew. Yahweh means 'He is.' [AND] In using LORD as a substitute for YHWH, they [KJV translators] were simply following an ancient Jewish tradition of substituting LORD for YHWH when copying or reading the Scriptures. This custom arose because the Jews wanted to safeguard against taking God's name in vain, which would violate the Third Commandment (Exodus 20:7).... The New Testament uses the Greek word kurios, meaning Lord, when quoting Old Testament scriptures containing YHWH (Matthew 3:3; 4:7, etc.)… All we have are the four Hebrew letters (called the tetragrammaton), which are usually transliterated as YHWH or JHVH and pronounced Yahweh (Hebrew) or Jehovah (English).” [The Oneness of God, David K Bernard] "All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made." (John 1:3)
"Who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery." The Israelites were exempt from all of the plagues, except the last one – death. Everyone had to obey this command to be spared: "On the tenth day of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household. And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to each man's need you shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight. And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it." (Exodus 12:3-7)
Moreover our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ." (1 Corinthians 10:1-4)
"'You shall have no other gods before me.' Worship offered to any other is idolatry. Yet, God the Father commands even the angels of heaven to worship Christ: When he bringeth in the first begotten into the world, he saith, ‘And let all the angels of God worship him.’ [Psalm 97:7] (Hebrews 1:6) By the express command of God worship is given to the Lord Jesus Christ. We must not fail to grasp the plain logic of the word of God here. We may put it in the form of a syllogism. Major Premise: Worship belongs exclusively to Jehovah, the only true God; Minor premise: God commands worship to be given to Jesus Christ; Conclusion: Therefore Jesus Christ is the true God and Jehovah. The first commandment, therefore, should be read in the light of the gospel. When it says, ‘Thou shall have no other gods before me,’ it commands us to acknowledge and confess the Lord Jesus Christ to be the true God and our Saviour. Jesus Himself said this: ‘Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.’ (John 14:1) That is the full significance of the first commandment….To obey it is to join with Thomas as he exclaimed of Christ: ‘My Lord and my God’ (John 20:28).”(Chariots of God— Alan Cairns)
God said: when your sons ask you the meaning of the "the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments which Yahweh our God has commanded you?’ then you shall say to your son: ‘We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, and Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; and Yahweh showed signs and wonders before our eyes, great and severe, against Egypt, Pharaoh, and all his household. Then He brought us out from there, that He might bring us in, to give us the land of which He swore to our fathers. And Yahweh commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that He might preserve us alive, as it is this day. Then it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to observe all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as He has commanded us.’” (Deuteronomy 6:20-25)
It will be righteousness to them if they observe the Commandments-- the basis for the old, as well as the new covenants made with "the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.” In the first with Israel, they were written on tablets of stone-- “My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them.” The second with the house of Judah, from whence came Christ, is written it on human hearts. (Jer 31:31-34)
But the hearts of many are hard and they will not obey the Commandments, even after deliverance from physical slavery, “After God had wrought a great deliverance for Israel, by bringing them out of the house of bondage, they did not immediately enter into the land which he had promised to their fathers; but 'wandered out of the way in the wilderness', (Ps 107:4) and were variously tempted and distressed. In like manner, after God has delivered them that fear him from the bondage of sin and Satan; after they are 'justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Jesus', (Rom 3:24) yet not many of them immediately enter into 'the rest which remains for the people of God.' (Heb. 4:9) The greater part of them wanders, more or less, out of the good way into which he has brought them. They come, as it were, into a 'waste and howling desert,' (Deut. 32:10) where they are variously tempted and tormented." [John Wesley]
“But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.” (James 1:25)
Until the coming of Jesus, they kept the Passover by partaking of the Paschal lamb and applying it’s blood to the door posts of their houses. Now we partake by applying the blood of Jesus to the doorposts of our hearts for with no regard for right doctrine of atonement, we remain in bondage to sin and death. The Person of Jesus is critical. “Beholding the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world”.” Jesus said: “Before Abraham was , I am.” (John 8:58) and "He who has seen Me has seen the Father…" (John 14:9— just as Moses began: “Hear, O Israel: Yahweh our God, the Yahweh is one!“ etc… (Deut. 6:4-9) This text is known to Jews as “Hear Israel”— “Shema Israel" -the foundational doctrine of Judaism.
The first recorded words of Jesus are “Let there be light.” Colossians 1:16-17 says: “For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.” Yahweh says, “I, even I, am He that blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and will not remember your sins” (Isaiah 43:25). Yet Jesus said unto the sick of the palsy, “Son, be of good cheer, your sins are forgiven you.”(Matthew 9:2) “The word picture found in the name of YHWH reveals the only path to life eternal. Yod – the hands, Hey – behold, Vav – the nail, Hey – behold! By examining the name [YHWH] we see the message to ‘Behold the nail scarred hands. Behold!’ Notice the hey – the command to ‘behold’- appears twice. Many have heard the gospel message. Millions know how the Saviour was crucified, placed in a borrowed tomb, and then resurrected 3 days later. It is not this knowledge alone that changes a life. You need to ‘behold’ the Savior and pay attention to His words. Accept the Messiah as the master of your life today and then walk after Him.” (emetministires.com) The name “Jesus” in Hebrew is “Yeshua”, which means “Yahweh saves”— whoever calls on Him for salvation.