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The Covenant Code, or Book of the Covenant, is the name given by academics to a text appearing in the Torah, at Exodus 20:22–23:19; or, more strictly, the term Covenant Code may be applied to Exodus 21:1–22:16. [1] Biblically, the text is the second of the law codes said to have been given to Moses by God at Mount Sinai.
A few Bible scholars call the verses in Exodus 34 the "small Covenant code", as it appears to be a compact version of the Covenant Code in Exodus 20:19–23:33; they argue the small Covenant code was composed around the same time as the Decalogue of Exodus 20, but either served different functions within Israelite religion, or reflects the ...
Books of Covenant – two books in the canon of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Covenant Code – the name given by academics to a text appearing in the Torah at Exodus 21:2–23:33. Kitáb-i-'Ahd – written by Bahá'u'lláh, and part of the text of the Bahá'í Faith. The Book of the Covenant mentioned in the Book of Exodus 24:7.
The Holiness Code has a similarity of structure with both the Covenant Code and the Deuteronomic Code. Like these, it opens with a law regulating ceremonies at the altar, lists a series of disparate laws, and then closes with a set of promises for obeying the law, and curses for failing to do so. While some of the laws appear more developed ...
In this covenant, God promises to make the Israelites his treasured possession among all people [24] and "a kingdom of priests and a holy nation", [25] if they follow God's commandments. As part of the terms of this covenant, God gives Moses the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:1-17); these are later embellished or elaborated on in the
The Book of Exodus (from Ancient Greek: Ἔξοδος, romanized: Éxodos; Biblical Hebrew: שְׁמוֹת Šəmōṯ, 'Names'; Latin: Liber Exodus) is the second book of the Bible. It is a narrative of the Exodus , the origin myth of the Israelites leaving slavery in Biblical Egypt through the strength of their deity named Yahweh , who ...
Some independent source texts thought to have been embedded within E include the Covenant Code, a legal text used in Chapters 21–23 of the Book of Exodus.
Richard Elliott Friedman argues that the Ten Commandments at Exodus 20:1–17 "does not appear to belong to any of the major sources. It is likely to be an independent document, which was inserted here by the Redactor." [168] In his view, the Covenant Code follows that version of the Ten Commandments in the northern Israel E narrative.