Full Exodus 19:5–6, 24:3–8 (the covenant ratification at Sinai with blood); Deuteronomy 28:1–14 (blessings) + 28:15–68 (curses). Conditional, Jer 31:32 explicitly notes this conditionality when contrasted with the New Covenant. The Mosaic's function per Gal 3:24: "the law is become our tutor (paidagōgos) to bring us unto Christ." The tutor-to-Christ function, preserving Israel, exposing sin, anticipating the New Covenant.
Commentary
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Key passage
"Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine."
Cross-references
- Ex 19:5-6If ye will obey... a kingdom of priests.
- Ex 20:1-17The Decalogue — the covenant's structure.
- Gal 3:17Cannot disannul the Abrahamic — added 430 years later.
- Gal 3:19Why then the law? Added because of transgressions.
- Gal 3:24The law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ.
- Rom 7:7Is the law sin? God forbid. Yet I had not known sin but by the law.
Typological connection
The Mosaic is conditional ("if ye obey"), unlike the Abrahamic. Its purpose was to make sin visible and to function as a tutor (Gal 3:24). The new covenant fulfills its goal by writing the law on the heart.
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