Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Gary Hedrick <garyh AT cjfm.org>]

We should note that God refers to the Sinai Law as "my covenant," not  
merely as Moses' covenant (Ex. 19:5).

Gary Hedrick
San Antonio, Texas

On Sep 30, 2007, at 7:29 AM, "biblical hebrew" <jcr.bhebrew AT gmail.com>  
wrote:

> I think that if this had been referred to as Moshe's Torah then a  
> good argument could have been made for this meaning that the entire  
> law code would be written in their hearts. However, what should be  
> taken in to consideration is that Yhwh is the speaker and he says  
> 'my law' and not 'Moshe's law'. As already noted the law that was  
> given to Moshe on Mount Sinai took the form of the ten words written  
> by God's own finger. Most of Moshe's laws are ritual descriptions  
> and 'what if' scenarios that are not covered directly by the ten  
> commandments. And what do the ten commandments say? Basically they  
> say 'Love Yhwh and be nice to people'. A person who understands this  
> by nature (in his heart) is in no need of a large code which covers  
> every possible 'what if' scenario because the instinctive knowledge  
> of what is right guides him in every situation.
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> James Christian Read - BSc Computer Science
> http://www.lamie.org/hebrew       Thesis 1 - Aleppo codex machine  
> translation
> http://www.lamie.org/lad-sim.doc  Thesis 2 - language acquisition  
> simulation
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