Although it does not say explicitly that no other gods exist, it does remove them from the presence of Yahweh. (The Hebrew preposition “before” used in this verse generally refers to location when it has a person as its object. Therefore we should understand it to say “there will not be for you other gods in my presence.”) If Yahweh does not share power, authority, or jurisdiction with them, they are not gods in any meaningful sense of the word.b
