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Exodus 20:1–2

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AND God spake all these words, saying,
I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
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From verse 1

  1. Deuteronomy 5:22Rank 1 from verse 1
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    22¶ These words the Lord spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.

  2. Deuteronomy 5:4Rank 2 from verse 1
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    4The Lord talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,

  3. Deuteronomy 4:36Rank 3 from verse 1
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    36Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.

  4. Acts 7:38Rank 4 from verse 1
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    38This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

  5. Deuteronomy 4:33Rank 5 from verse 1
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    33Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

  6. Acts 7:53Rank 6 from verse 1
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    53Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.

From verse 2

  1. Deuteronomy 5:6Rank 1 from verse 2
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    6¶ I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

  2. Hosea 13:4Rank 2 from verse 2
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    4Yet I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.

  3. Leviticus 26:13Rank 3 from verse 2
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    13I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.

  4. Psalms 81:10Rank 4 from verse 2
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    10I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

  5. Exodus 13:3Rank 5 from verse 2
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    3¶ And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.

  6. Leviticus 19:36Rank 6 from verse 2
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    36Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

  7. Deuteronomy 26:6–8Rank 7 from verse 2
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    6And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

    7And when we cried unto the Lord God of our fathers, the Lord heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:

    8And the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:

  8. Genesis 17:7–8Rank 8 from verse 2
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    7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

    8And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

  9. Deuteronomy 7:8Rank 9 from verse 2
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    8But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

  10. Deuteronomy 5:15Rank 10 from verse 2
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    15And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

  11. Leviticus 23:43Rank 11 from verse 2
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    43That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

  12. Deuteronomy 13:10Rank 12 from verse 2
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    10And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

  13. Deuteronomy 15:15Rank 13 from verse 2
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    15And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.

  14. Leviticus 26:1Rank 14 from verse 2
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    1YE shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God.

  15. Deuteronomy 6:4–5Rank 15 from verse 2
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    4Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord:

    5And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

  16. Jeremiah 31:33Rank 16 from verse 2
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    33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

  17. Exodus 10:1–15Rank 17 from verse 2
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    1AND the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him:

    2And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the Lord.

    3And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.

    4Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:

    5And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:

    6And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.

    7And Pharaoh’s servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?

    8And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go, serve the Lord your God: but who are they that shall go?

    9And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the Lord.

    10And he said unto them, Let the Lord be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you.

    11Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the Lord; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.

    12¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.

    13And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

    14And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.

    15For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

  18. Psalms 50:7Rank 18 from verse 2
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    7Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.

  19. Romans 10:12Rank 19 from verse 2
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    12For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

  20. Romans 3:29Rank 20 from verse 2
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    29Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

  21. Jeremiah 31:1Rank 21 from verse 2
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    1AT the same time, saith the Lord, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

  22. 2 Chronicles 28:5Rank 22 from verse 2
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    5Wherefore the Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.

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Exodus 20:1

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spake

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The past tense of speak: uttered or expressed words, addressed someone, or communicated a matter in words.

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words

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Spoken or written expressions, sayings, statements, messages, commands, promises, reports, or units of meaningful speech.

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Exodus 20:2

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which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

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out

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Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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land

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Sense 1: The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region. Sense 2: To set or come on shore.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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house

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Sense 1: A building or dwelling. Sense 2: The people of a household or family. Sense 3: A lineage or family line. Sense 4: As a verb, to shelter, lodge, or provide a dwelling for.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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20:1AND God spake all these words, saying,

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20:2I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

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20:3Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

20:4Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

20:5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

20:6And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

20:7Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

20:8Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

20:9Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

20:10But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

20:11For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

20:12¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

20:13Thou shalt not kill.

20:14Thou shalt not commit adultery.

20:15Thou shalt not steal.

20:16Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

20:17Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

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