quite antithetical to the spatial meaning—the gift was certainly not in Jacob’s presence as he had sent it away to Esau. Consequently, the fact that the spatial sense can be conveyed in the Hebrew Bible is not an argument that it is conveyed in Exod 20:3. Other elements of Walton’s conclusion are more fundamentally problematic. The statement that Yahweh “does not function as the head of a pantheon with a divine assembly” cannot be upheld. If this were the correct interpretation of the first commandment,