of God’s decisive self-revelation in Exodus 3, for there too God’s self-portrayal is expressed in practical terms by setting forth his moral will: he has heard the groanings of the oppressed and has come to liberate them. The introduction to the Ten Commandments, both in the Exodus 20 version and in the form in Deuteronomy, links up with this revelation: Yahweh introduces himself as the God who brought Israel out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. In other words, for Israel, the Ten Commandments