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14 sty 2024 · If you’re short on time, here’s a quick answer to what the covenant between God and Moses entailed: God chose Moses to lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt and into the Promised Land. In return, the Israelites agreed to worship God alone and follow the Ten Commandments and other laws God gave them through Moses.
Exodus 24. Expanded Bible. God Makes a Covenant with Israel. 24 The Lord told Moses, “You, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel must come up to me and ·worship [bow down to] me from a distance. 2 Then Moses alone must come near me; the others must not come near.
In Exodus 19:3 Moses goes up the first time into Mount Sinai, and God announces to him the general terms of the covenant in verses 5 and 6: If you obey me and keep my covenant, you will be my special possession, a kingdom of priests, a holy nation.
4 sty 2022 · The Mosaic Covenant is a conditional covenant made between God and the nation of Israel at Mount Sinai (Exodus 19-24). It is sometimes called the Sinai Covenant but is more often referred to as the Mosaic Covenant since Moses was God’s chosen leader of Israel at that time.
Scholars trace a number of covenants in the Bible. When the covenant in our passage is referred to, it is called the Mosaic Covenant (given through Moses) or the Sinaitic Covenant (given at Mt. Sinai), or, when contrasted with the New Covenant through Jesus, it is called the Old Covenant.
Building on the covenant made with Abraham, which first established a relationship between God and Abraham’s descendents, the basic agreement of the Sinai covenant is God’s affirmation of the Israelites as his people on the condition that they accept certain rules of conduct.
4 sty 2022 · The Bible speaks of seven different covenants, four of which (Abrahamic, Palestinian, Mosaic, Davidic) God made with the nation of Israel. Of those four, three are unconditional in nature; that is, regardless of Israel’s obedience or disobedience, God still will fulfill these covenants with Israel. One of the covenants, the Mosaic Covenant ...
