This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...of an untrained people. Exodus 19:1-25, 20:18-21, 24:1-18, 32:134: 10, Events at Sinai. CHAPTER XVI THE COVENANT OF JEHOVAH How Moses Made A Constitution For His People The "law of the covenant" which the people bound themselves to accept at Sinai was believed to have been inscribed on two stone tablets which the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...of an untrained people. Exodus 19:1-25, 20:18-21, 24:1-18, 32:134: 10, Events at Sinai. CHAPTER XVI THE COVENANT OF JEHOVAH How Moses Made A Constitution For His People The "law of the covenant" which the people bound themselves to accept at Sinai was believed to have been inscribed on two stone tablets which the people carried with them as memorials of this great event in their history. Tablets of laws were known in Babylonia long before. A stone monument inscribed with the laws of King Hammurabi, who lived over six hundred years before Moses, has been discovered by modern explorers. What laws did Hebrew tradition assign to these tablets? The Ten Commandments, is the ready answer. And that is right; but what were the ten commandments? The familiar version in both the Jewish and Christian churches is that of Exodus 20. In Deuteronomy 5 the same decalogue is given, but with some differences. In Exodus 34, however, another decalogue is given as written on the tables of stone. The explanation probably is that there were in Israel two codes of laws, both of which seemed fundamental to the worship of Jehovah. One form of the account of Sinai chose one code as most important and the other, form chose the other code. Both contain some of no the same laws. Possibly both are later editions of the same original code. Ancient laws were not rigidly fixed and there was no hesitation about making additions and changes, as we may see by comparing the decalogue in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5. We may call the decalogue in Exodus 34, The Law of Worship. Put in brief form it is: 1. Thou shalt worship no other god. 2. Thou shalt make thee no molten image. 3. The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. 4. Every first-born is mine; thou shalt sacrifice it or redeem ...
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