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“for he was absent from them forty days,” fear seized upon the Hebrews, lest Moses should have come to any harm;” Josephus, Flavius, Antiquities of the Jews · observation
“And the people answered with one voice and said unto Moses: All the words which the LORD hath said, will we do.” William Tyndale, The first New Testament printed in English · observation
God gives the Ten Commandments and related laws to Moses, including prohibitions on other gods and idols, Sabbath observance, honoring parents, and rules after the people fear God’s presence.
And God spake all these words and said: I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt and out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have none other gods in my sight. Thou shalt make thee no graven image, neither any similitude that is in heaven above, either in the earth beneath, or in the water that is beneath the earth. See that thou neither bow thyself unto them neither serve them: for I th…
Moses repeats Israel’s encounter at Horeb—God speaking from fire—and then gives the Ten Commandments and covenant renewal, emphasizing obedience, Sabbath rest, and moral prohibitions.
And Moses called unto all Israel and said unto them: Hear Israel the ordinances and laws which I speak in thine ears this day, and learn them and take heed that ye do them. The LORD {Loode} our God made an appointment with us in Horeb. The LORD made not this bond with our fathers, but with us: we are they, which are all here alive this day. The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the fire. And I sto…
Luther defines original sin as coming from Adam and spreading to all people, rejects scholastic claims about intact human nature and works, and explains how the law reveals sin and provokes wrath.
[Again,] that it is not founded upon Scripture that for a good work the Holy Ghost with His grace is necessary. Such and many similar things have arisen from want of understanding and ignorance as regards both this sin and Christ, our Savior and they are truly heathen dogmas, which we cannot endure. For if this teaching were right [approved], then Christ has died in vain, since there is in man no defect nor sin for …
He explains the Ten Commandments as the first written law given by God to Moses, then argues Israel’s obligation depended on Israel’s civil sovereign authority, ultimately Moses and the high priest.
Of The Ten Commandements That part of the Scripture, which was first Law, was the Ten Commandements, written in two Tables of Stone, and delivered by God himselfe to Moses; and by Moses made known to the people. Before that time there was no written Law of God, who as yet having not chosen any people to bee his peculiar Kingdome, had given no Law to men, but the Law of Nature, that is to say, the Precepts of Natural…
After Moses reports the ten commandments, the congregation disperses; on the following days Israelites request more laws, and Moses ascends again for forty days, during which the camp fears for him.
not be guilty of theft. The ninth, that we must not bear false witness. The tenth, that we must not admit of the desire of any thing that is another's. 6. Now when the multitude had heard God himself giving those precepts which Moses had discoursed of, they rejoiced at what was said; and the congregation was dissolved: but on the following days they came to his tent, and desired him to bring them, besides, other law…