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John Gill's Exposition on Exodus 34:27

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the Lord said unto Moses, etc.] Being still with him on the mount: write thou these words; expressed in the preceding verses, from (<023411>Exodus 34:11-27), as he before had written in a book all those laws, contained in (<022101>Exodus 21:1-23:33) called the book of the covenant, (<022404>Exodus 24:4,7) and which perhaps might be destroyed, as well as the two tables were broken; and therefore upon the renewal of the covenant here, there is a repetition made of the principal laws before given, which are ordered also to be written in a book, which may very well be called by the same name, since it follows: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel, with Moses, as their representative and mediator, and with them represented by him: what is above related carries in it the form of a covenant between them, God having declared on his part what he would do for them, and what laws and rules he required to be observed on their part; which Moses assented to in their name, and was ordered to write them down, that he might repeat them to them.
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