Exodus 40 (chosen pages)
(Ex 40, 1-3) You shall erect the Dwelling
[1] Then the LORD said to Moses, [2] "On the first day of the first month you shall erect the Dwelling of the meeting tent. [3] Put the ark of the commandments in it, and screen off the ark with the veil.
(CCC 2061) The Commandments take on their full meaning within the covenant. According to Scripture, man's moral life has all its meaning in and through the covenant. The first of the "ten words" recalls that God loved his people first: Since there was a passing from the paradise of freedom to the slavery of this world, in punishment for sin, the first phrase of the Decalogue, the first word of God's commandments, bears on freedom "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery" (Origen, Hom. in Ex. 8,1: PG 12, 350; cf. Ex 20:2; Deut 5:6).
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