Text: Deuteronomy 5:6
OT Text Referred to: Exodus 20:1
Subject: Ten Commandments
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Anchor Text: Exod 20 — The Decalogue
Significance: Exodus 20:1 introduces the Decalogue with "God spoke all these words," and Deuteronomy 5:6 opens the restated Decalogue with the same preamble: "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery" (אָנֹכִי יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ, anokhi YHWH elohekha). The historical preamble is verbatim identical in both versions, grounding the commandments in the exodus event. Deuteronomy's restatement of the Decalogue to the new generation on the plains of Moab demonstrates that these words were not addressed only to the Sinai generation but to every generation of covenant Israel, with Moses insisting "the LORD made this covenant not with our fathers but with us" (Deut 5:3).