Quotes About Covenant

Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.

And unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.í These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites.”

So Moses went back and summoned the elders of the people and set before them all these words that the LORD had commanded him.

And all the people answered together, “We will do everything that the LORD has spoken.” So Moses brought their words back to the LORD.

and be prepared by the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

When Moses came down from the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.

“Be prepared for the third day,” he said to the people. “Do not draw near to a woman.”

Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

So Moses went down to the people and spoke to them.

And God spoke all these words:

“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

You shall not commit adultery.

“Speak to us yourself and we will listen,” they said to Moses. “But do not let God speak to us, or we will die.”

“These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:

If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.

then his master is to bring him before the judges. And he shall take him to the door or doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he shall serve his master for life.

If anyone sacrifices to any god other than the LORD alone, he must be set apart for destruction.

You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning.

Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its motherís milk.

Pay attention to him and listen to his voice; do not defy him, for he will not forgive rebellion, since My Name is in him.

But if you will listen carefully to his voice and do everything I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.

For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will annihilate them.