THE COVENANT AT SINAI (Exodus 19)
The Israelites arrived at Sinai in the third month, having traveled from this place where they had bitter water made sweet.
What is Elim?
This commandment specifically mentions that God visits iniquity on descendants to the third and fourth generation of those who reject Him.
What is the second commandment?
The covenant ritual involved two types of animals whose blood was collected in basins.
What are young bulls?
The people attributed their deliverance from Egypt to this object when they said it had brought them up out of the land.
What is the golden calf?
Before giving the law, God reminded Israel how He had carried them to Himself, comparing His care to this bird's protective behavior.
What is an eagle?
The commandment honoring parents contains this specific promise related to the Israelites' future in the promised land.
What is long life?
Half of the blood was thrown on the altar; the other half was thrown on this group.
What are the people?
The people rose early the next day and offered these two types of sacrifices to the golden calf.
What are burnt offerings and/or peace offerings?
God required the people to wash their garments and abstain from this activity as part of their three-day preparation.
What is sexual relations?
The prohibition against murder is listed in this number among the Ten Commandments.
What is the sixth?
After the covenant meal, Moses and the elders saw a vision of God's feet resting on a pavement resembling this precious stone.
What is sapphire?
Moses pleaded with God not to destroy Israel, reminding Him of His oath to these three patriarchs.
Who are Abraham, Isaac, and Israel?
The boundary around Mount Sinai was marked to prevent the people from breaking through, lest this happen to them.
What is many of them should perish?
The people requested that Moses act as their intermediary because they feared this consequence if God spoke directly to them again.
What is death?
Moses left these two men in charge of disputes while he went up the mountain, giving instructions to consult them if needed.
Who are Hur and Aaron?
After breaking the tablets, Moses took the calf, burned it with fire, ground it to powder, scattered it on the water, and made the people do this with it.
What is drink it?
When the trumpet sounded long, this group was permitted to go up the mountain, though normally only Moses could approach.
Who are Moses and Aaron?
This commandment is the only one that explicitly includes the phrase "that your days may be long," connecting obedience to temporal blessing.
What is the fifth commandment?
Moses spent forty days on the mountain receiving these two items that would serve as permanent evidence of the covenant.
What are the tablets of stone?
When Moses confronted Aaron about the calf, Aaron offered three escalating excuses: the people's evil nature, their demand for gods, and this miraculous claim about the gold's transformation.
What is "I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf"?