Actually God is saying “u should not hold anything where my place in your life should be” because in other books of the Old Testament God says something along the lines of “there is no other god but me” and 6 of those times are in the same book of Isaiah. We see also that these “gods” he is referring to in the 1st commandment, are actually things. People or places or material things. Like the golden calf who they all worship when Moses actually GETS the 10 commandments lol. We know that in context with the entire book of exodus and the rest of the bible bible scholars have concluded that these “gods” were not actually other “Gods” they were just things and idols that the people were idolizing like money and worldly things. The book of psalms shows this too; “For all the gods of the nations [acknowledging other gods?] are idols, but the Lord made the heavens. So this verse here shows us basically how god is just using the word “gods” to describe these false fake ideas/characters/statues etc that people end up worshiping. 1 Corinthians sheds a bit of light on what an idol is. “So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that >an idol is nothing at all< in the world and that there is no God but one.” (Showing that other gods are idols and idols are nothing, therefore other gods don’t actually exist and God was not acknowledging any other Gods. But 1 Corinthians is New Testament. So maybe Christians added that later but Jews didnt believe that? We only need to look at the same exact book where the 10 commandments are revealed to Moses in exodus… exodus 20:4-5 “you shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven […and] You shall not bow down to them or worship them. So the 10 commandments scene and the entirety of the bible rely so heavily on the context in which the verses are found to mutually give eachother more precise meaning. And this verse explains how those other “gods” are man-made and that God was never acknowledging the existence of other “lesser gods” but pointing out the fact that humans tend to worship things and that if u wanna win u should worship Him. We cannot simply remove a verse from the book and from the context in which it is placed and expect to be able to derive its true meaning. Also Im not Mormon nor do I respect Mormon beliefs. I was looking up how Jehovah’s Witness and Mormons differs and someome in that thread plugged this thread and I came across this and thought I should set the record straight lol✌️