even clearer and stricter in reference to the Kingdom of God.127 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. The word before does not here carry the idea of order of preference, for this is not a commandment to give Jehovah first place among many gods. Before me is literally “before my face,” and carries the idea of “in addition to me,” or as the margin gives it, “besides me.” Jehovah who brought them out of Egypt was to be worshiped exclusively. Some have questioned whether this actually teaches monotheism