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Exodus 24 Bible study: The blood of the covenant

Israel said yes to the LORD's words three times (19:8, 24:3, 24:7), and Moses sprinkled them with "the blood of the covenant" (24:8). In the World English Bible those words appear again only in Hebrews (9:20, 10:29). At supper Jesus took the cup and said, "This is my blood of the new covenant" (Mark 14:24).

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“Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you concerning all these words.””
Exodus 24:8 · World English Bible

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What's really going on

They said yes three times

In the text

When Moses first set the LORD's words before the elders (19:7), the people answered, "All that the LORD has spoken we will do" (19:8). In this chapter they say it twice more. Moses "told the people all the LORD’s words, and all the ordinances" (24:3), the ordinances that began at 21:1, and "all the people answered with one voice" (24:3): "All the words which the LORD has spoken will we do" (24:3). Then "Moses wrote all the LORD’s words" (24:4), and "He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people" (24:7). Their answer: "We will do all that the LORD has said, and be obedient" (24:7). Half the blood had already gone on the altar (24:6); only now did Moses sprinkle the rest on the people (24:8).

Where it leads to Jesus

The first covenant, dedicated with blood

In the text

Exodus 24:8leads toHebrews 9:15-20

Moses sprinkled the people and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you concerning all these words" (24:8). Hebrews gives his words as "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you" (Hebrews 9:20), worded a little differently from Exodus, and calls it the first covenant: "Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood" (Hebrews 9:18). Of Jesus it says, "he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant" (Hebrews 9:15).

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  • A meal on the mountain
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  • Three times in the World English Bible
  • A new covenant, not like this one
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The Hebrew word behind it

בְּרִיתberitsay be-REET

Brown-Driver-Briggs: "covenant"; Strong's: "a compact". Here it names "the book of the covenant" (24:7) and "the blood of the covenant" (24:8). Exodus first uses it when "God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob" (2:24), and at this mountain God said, "if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples" (19:5). The verb in 24:8, "which the LORD has made with you", is karat (H3772); Strong's gives "to cut (off, down or asunder)" and, "specifically, to covenant".

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Exodus 24 Bible study questions

  1. 1Israel promised to do all the LORD's words (24:3), then made a calf while Moses was still on the mountain (32:1-8). Have you promised God more than you could keep? What does Jesus' "new covenant in my blood" (Luke 22:20) mean to you there?
  2. 2The elders "saw God, and ate and drank" (24:11). Jesus gave his disciples the cup at a meal. When has sharing a table with other believers been a place where God felt near to you?
  3. 3The cloud covered the mountain for six days before the LORD called to Moses (24:16), and down below, when the people saw that Moses delayed, they asked Aaron to make them gods (32:1). What helps you keep going when God seems slow?

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