Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

Yesterday Moses transitioned out of telling the new generation of Israelites about their

history and segwayed into telling them about their future.

They'll do a little back and forth like this throughout this conversation.

When we left off, he was giving an introduction to the laws and today he continues that conversation,

starting with the Ten Commandments.

And here's an interesting thing about these two tablets mentioned in 522.

We often see them as having five commandments on each tablet.

But the way treaties were written back then usually involved making two copies of the treaty,

one for each party.

So we can't know for sure unless one of you has access to the arc of the covenant and

just didn't tell me, but all Ten Commandments were probably on both tablets.

Before Moses goes over the Ten Commandments, he starts out by telling them that God's covenant

is not with their fathers, it's with them.

And yes, of course it was also with their fathers, but Moses is emphasizing here that they have

their own relationship with God.

This is not a thing to be received second hand.

God is also making the covenant with their generation directly.

And even though for many of these people God didn't technically rescue them out of

Egyptian slavery, still he did.

Because if he hadn't rescued their parents, they would have been in slavery as well.

Moses reiterates the Ten Commandments to this new generation and tells them how their

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