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 segued into telling them about their future.

He'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 10 Commandments were probably on both

tablets. Before Moses goes over the 10 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 secondhand.

God is also making the covenant with their... 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 parents had received these words with joy and

gratitude. They had a proper awe and fear of God in that moment, even though, as we know, it was temporary.

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