Hey, it's Shelby and Paul here.

We are in Exodus talking through chapters 20 through 23 today.

So in these chapters we have the giving of the Ten Commandments.

There's a lot to talk through here, Paul.

Why don't you start us off in chapter 20? Yes. So we have at the beginning of chapter 20,

an important statement from God in verses 2 through 3. He first declares who he is, right? And like we

talked about before, God revealing his name is Yahweh now,

is this new declaration of something about his character, that he's this deliverer, right? And so

he reminds them, before he tells them how they are to live, he reminds them who he is

and what he's done for them. Right. He is Yahweh who brought them out of Egypt, right?

And, you know, like we said earlier, right, like God's salvation makes Israel his people first,

before they obey, right?

And so, you know, it's a reminder that the way that they live doesn't determine who they are, right?

And this law that he gives them is the formal establishment of Israel as a nation.

And this covenant, which theologian Gerald Bray, he defines it as relationships that God establishes with people on the basis of his promises.

And so here, God has made this promise.

He's going to deliver them. He's done it.

And so now he's giving them this new relationship, this new special relationship with only with Israel.

And now he's about to tell them how they're supposed to live. Okay. So he's going to tell them how they're supposed to live based on their relationship. There are like, I think if we went into our office and looked into, we

have like these bookshelves, just filled with all these books we used for research. And we

looked for books on the Ten Commandments. We could pull like several off the shelves. But Paul,

you've got like three minutes. So can you break down the Ten Commandments for us?

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