A phrase often used by God in the Bible and Torah to assert his dominance, despite his obvious insecurity about the position and therefore his constant need to repeat it over and over again, as often as sentences apart.
"Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘I am the LORD your God...'"
You must obey my laws and be careful to follow my decrees. I am the LORD your God.
‘No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.
- Leviticus 18