Exodus 19:5
19:5 And now, if you will diligently listen to me
and keep
my covenant, then you will be my
special possession
out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine,
Exodus 24:7-8
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.”
Deuteronomy 29:1
Narrative Interlude
29:1 (28:69) These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.
Deuteronomy 29:10-14
29:10 You are standing today, all of you, before the
Lord your God – the heads of your tribes,
your elders, your officials, every Israelite man,
29:11 your infants, your wives, and the
foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water –
29:12 so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the
Lord your God is making with you today.
29:13 Today he will affirm that you are his people and that he is your God,
just as he promised you and as he swore by oath to your ancestors
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
29:14 It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant by oath,
Jeremiah 31:31-34
31:31 “Indeed, a time is coming,” says the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah.
31:32 It will not be like the old covenant that I made with their ancestors when I delivered them from Egypt. For they violated that covenant, even though I was like a faithful husband to them,” says the Lord.
31:33 “But I will make a new covenant with the whole nation of Israel after I plant them back in the land,” says the Lord. “I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts and minds. I will be their God and they will be my people.
31:34 “People will no longer need to teach their neighbors and relatives to know me. For all of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me,” says the Lord. “For I will forgive their sin and will no longer call to mind the wrong they have done.”
Hebrews 8:6-13
8:6 But
now Jesus
has obtained a superior ministry, since
the covenant that he mediates is also better and is enacted
on better promises.
8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one.
8:8 But showing its fault, God says to them,
“Look, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
8:9 “It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.
8:10 “For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people.
8:11 “And there will be no need at all for each one to teach his countryman or each one to teach his brother saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ since they will all know me, from the least to the greatest.
8:12 “For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds, and their sins I will remember no longer.”
8:13 When he speaks of a new covenant, he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear.