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Text -- Exodus 24:1-9 (NET)
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The Lord Ratifies the Covenant
24:1 But to Moses the Lord said , “Come up to the Lord , you and Aaron , Nadab and Abihu , and seventy of the elders of Israel , and worship from a distance .
24:2 Moses alone may come near the Lord , but the others must not come near , nor may the people go up with him.”
24:3 Moses came and told the people all the Lord’s words and all the decisions . All the people answered together , “We are willing to do all the words that the Lord has said ,”
24:4 and Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord . Early in the morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain and arranged twelve standing stones – according to the twelve tribes of Israel .
24:5 He sent young Israelite men , and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls for peace offerings to the Lord .
24:6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls , and half of the blood he splashed on the altar .
24:7 He took the Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people , and they said , “We are willing to do and obey all that the Lord has spoken .”
24:8 So Moses took the blood and splashed it on the people and said , “This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words .”
24:9 Moses and Aaron , Nadab and Abihu , and the seventy elders of Israel went up ,
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
ETHICS, III |
Revelation |
COVENANT, THE NEW |
SEPTUAGINT, 1 |
MOSES |
Purification |
GENESIS, 1-2 |
Blood |
EXODUS, THE BOOK OF, 2 |
LAW, JUDICIAL |
SACRIFICE, IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, 1 |
Nadab |
Aaron |
Israel |
COVENANT, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT |
SACRIFICE, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, 2 |
Altar |
Word of God |
Young Men |
SALVATION |
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NET Notes: Exo 24:1 These seventy-four people were to go up the mountain to a certain point. Then they were to prostrate themselves and worship Yahweh as Moses went furth...
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NET Notes: Exo 24:2 Now the imperfect tense negated is used; here the prohibition would fit (“they will not come near”), or the obligatory (“they must n...
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NET Notes: Exo 24:3 The verb is the imperfect tense (נַעֲשֶׂה, na’aseh), although the form could be classified as a ...
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NET Notes: Exo 24:4 The thing numbered is found in the singular when the number is plural – “twelve standing-stone.” See GKC 433 §134.f. The “...
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NET Notes: Exo 24:5 The verbs and their respective accusatives are cognates. First, they offered up burnt offerings (see Lev 1), which is וַיּ...
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NET Notes: Exo 24:6 The people and Yahweh through this will be united by blood, for half was spattered on the altar and the other half spattered on/toward the people (v. ...
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NET Notes: Exo 24:7 A second verb is now added to the people’s response, and it is clearly an imperfect and not a cohortative, lending support for the choice of des...
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NET Notes: Exo 24:8 The construct relationship “the blood of the covenant” means “the blood by which the covenant is ratified” (S. R. Driver, Exod...
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