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El 1er Mandamiento: No tendrás otros dioses

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Jul 7, 2026 · 6 min6K

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Los 10 Mandamientos son los primeros términos del pacto de Dios con Israel y una invitación para que ellos sean sus representantes ante todas las naciones. Mira este video y explora la importancia del origen de los 10 Mandamientos y el significado del 1er Mandamiento. En este video, aprenderás… El contexto bíblico de los 10 Mandamientos. Qué significa “delante de mí” en el primer mandamiento (“No tendrás otros elohim delante de mí”). El significado de “elohim” en la historia bíblica. Qué pasa cuando las personas son leales y fieles a otros “dioses”. Qué pasa cuando las personas son leales y fieles a Yahweh.

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The Ten Commandments did not appear out of nowhere. They are the words that God spoke to Israel after rescuing them from Egypt and bringing them to the foot of Mount Sinai. This is the commandment of God. Listen to my voice and keep my covenant. Okay, good. The terms of this covenant will set you apart from the rest. You will be a holy nation, apart, a kingdom of priests and representatives before the nations. That is the commandment of God, and the Ten Commandments are the first terms of the covenant. And they start like this, Exodus 20, verse 2. I am Yahweh, your Elohim, whom I have taken from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery. Notice that the first thing that is mentioned is who God is for the people. This is a family whose fundamental identity is, before we were slaves. Now we are a liberated people, and Yahweh is our liberator. And that means that one way to understand the Ten Commandments is to see them as an ethics of freedom. It is the ethics of the free. Like living as a free people. Of course, and also the phrase, I am Yahweh, your Elohim, I am yours, is a phrase that is repeated throughout Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and the prophets. God says, I will be your God, and you will be my people. And it is very similar to the famous phrase of the song of the singers, I am of my beloved, and my beloved is mine. This vocabulary is typical of a covenant.

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So here we do not have an order. The first words of the Ten Commandments are not a commandment. They are just an affirmation. Taking this into account, let's see what is the first real order of the Ten Commandments. There will be for you no other Elohim before me. This little phrase, in front of me, Al-Penay or Al-Panay, is a very common prepositional expression. It is the grammatical term used to refer to something that is physically located in front of you. It literally means in front of my face. But it can also mean against your face. So let's imagine that a hostile army advances towards you. They are also in front of your face. They are in front of your face, but they are advancing against you. Against your face. Ok. Of course. Yes, that's right. This can be confusing, but this phrase Al-Panay can also be used not in the sense of in front of you, but in the sense of next to you. How? Sometimes it is used in the sense of in your place. It is very flexible. It is very flexible. This idea of no other Elohim could be applied to all those meanings and it would be fine.

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So don't put anything else in front of me, or next to me, or against me, or in my place. There will be no other Elohim for you. Nothing else is your life. Well, and Elohim is the Hebrew word that simply means spiritual being. Yes, and it is used to refer to the only God of Israel, the creator of everything. But also to refer to other spiritual beings, real or imaginary. We know that there are other spiritual beings. They are what we call the army of heaven. Yes, in the Bible they are also called with other titles, such as messengers, who are the angels. We have the members of the divine council, the children of God, the spirits. This is the kind of creatures that are called spiritual beings. In Deuteronomy 10, 17, Moses says, Yahweh, your Elohim. He is the Elohim of Elohim. Yes, he is in a separate category. Exactly. No other spiritual being other than Yahweh has the same rank as Yahweh nor is he worthy of your supreme loyalty and fidelity. Of course.

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In our context, we minimize the idea that there are other spiritual powers. Yes, but in reality, those superior forces, those elevated ideals that demand our loyalty, exist. And when human beings give our desires, imagination and loyalty to anything that is not the source of all reality, that ends up taking us down a path that dehumanizes us both ourselves and others. I think it's easy to see it in things like sex or money. Greed. Yes, or power. When those things become ends in themselves, they end up taking us to our destruction. Yes. It is possible to live human existence in a lie, thinking that someone or something or some power has an authority over me that is not real. Instead, when I recognize the one who truly has authority over my life, because his authority is me, I begin to live in the truth and in the path of freedom. it is possible to live in a lie.

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It is possible to live in a lie. This is a concept that takes shape right here, It is possible to live in a lie. It is possible to live in a lie. while we hear God pronouncing these words. These are words that shape the world, and it is only the first commandment.

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