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." 25
Catechism number 2064
In fidelity to Scripture and in conformity with the example of Jesus, the tradition of the Church has
acknowledged the primordial importance and significance of the Decalogue.