The words came out of thunder and smoke and fire. The mountain shook. The people trembled. And God spoke ten words to a people He had just rescued from four hundred years of slavery.

In this letter

- The rescue leading up to Sinai — plagues, Passover, Red Sea, manna

- Exodus 19 — the setup, the covenant offer, the preparation

- The theophany at Sinai — thunder, smoke, fire

- Why the ten were given at this moment, to these people

- How every command was a rejection of something in the Egyptian world

Scripture — Exodus 19; Exodus 20:1-2

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