Nehemiah 9:13
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13 You came down also upon Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,(A)
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Psalm 119:160
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160 The sum of your word is truth,
and every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.(A)
Exodus 20:1
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Psalm 119:127-128
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127 Truly I love your commandments
more than gold, more than fine gold.(A)
128 Truly I direct my steps by all your precepts;[a]
I hate every false way.(B)
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- 119.128 Gk Jerome: Meaning of Heb uncertain
Exodus 19:11
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11 and prepare for the third day, because on the third day the Lord will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.(A)
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Romans 7:12-14
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12 So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.(A)
13 Did what is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin that was working death in me through what is good, in order that it might be shown to be sin, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful beyond measure.
The Inner Conflict
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold into slavery under sin.[a]
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- 7.14 Gk sold under sin
Ezekiel 20:11-13
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11 I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live.(A) 12 Moreover, I gave them my Sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, so that they might know that I the Lord sanctify them.(B) 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not observe my statutes but rejected my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live, and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned.
Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make an end of them.(C)
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Psalm 19:7-11
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7 The law of the Lord is perfect,
reviving the soul;
the decrees of the Lord are sure,
making wise the simple;(A)
8 the precepts of the Lord are right,
rejoicing the heart;
the commandment of the Lord is clear,
enlightening the eyes;(B)
9 the fear of the Lord is pure,
enduring forever;
the ordinances of the Lord are true
and righteous altogether.(C)
10 More to be desired are they than gold,
even much fine gold;
sweeter also than honey
and drippings of the honeycomb.(D)
11 Moreover, by them is your servant warned;
in keeping them there is great reward.(E)
Deuteronomy 5:22-26
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Moses the Mediator of God’s Will
22 “These words the Lord spoke with a loud voice to your whole assembly at the mountain, out of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, and he added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.(A) 23 When you heard the voice out of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you approached me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders, 24 and you said, ‘Look, the Lord our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the fire. We have seen this day that God may speak to someone and the person may still live.(B) 25 But now why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer, we shall die.(C) 26 For who is there of all flesh that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and lived?(D)
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Exodus 19:16-20
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16 On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, as well as a thick cloud on the mountain and a blast of a trumpet so loud that all the people who were in the camp trembled.(A) 17 Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God. They took their stand at the foot of the mountain. 18 Now all of Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke, because the Lord had descended upon it in fire; the smoke went up like the smoke of a kiln, while the whole mountain shook violently.(B) 19 As the blast of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses would speak and God would answer him in thunder.(C) 20 When the Lord descended upon Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, the Lord summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
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Hebrews 12:18-26
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18 You have not come to something[a] that can be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest,(A) 19 and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that not another word be spoken to them.(B) 20 (For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned to death.”(C) 21 Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.”)(D) 22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,(E) 23 and to the assembly[b] of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,(F) 24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.(G)
25 See that you do not refuse the one who is speaking, for if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject the one who warns from heaven!(H) 26 At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heaven.”(I)
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Romans 7:16
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16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good.
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Habakkuk 3:3
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3 God came from Teman,
the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah
His glory covered the heavens,
and the earth was full of his praise.(A)
Isaiah 64:3
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3 When you did awesome deeds that we did not expect,
you came down; the mountains quaked at your presence.(A)
Isaiah 64:1
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64 O that you would tear open the heavens and come down,
so that the mountains would quake at your presence—(A)
Psalm 119:137
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137 You are righteous, O Lord,
and your judgments are right.(A)
Deuteronomy 33:2
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2 He said,
“The Lord came from Sinai
and dawned from Seir upon us;[a]
he shone forth from Mount Paran.
With him were myriads of holy ones,[b]
at his right, a host of his own.[c](A)
Deuteronomy 10:12-13
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The Essence of the Law
12 “So now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you? Only to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,(A) 13 and to keep the commandments of the Lord and his decrees that I am commanding you today, for your own well-being.
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Deuteronomy 5:4
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4 The Lord spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the fire.(A)
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Deuteronomy 4:33
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33 Has any people ever heard the voice of a god speaking out of a fire, as you have heard, and lived?(A)
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Deuteronomy 4:10-13
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10 how you once stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, when the Lord said to me, ‘Assemble the people for me, and I will let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me as long as they live on the earth and may teach their children so’;(A) 11 you approached and stood at the foot of the mountain while the mountain was blazing up to the very heavens, shrouded in dark clouds.(B) 12 Then the Lord spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of words but saw no form; there was only a voice.(C) 13 He declared to you his covenant, which he charged you to observe, that is, the ten commandments,[a] and he wrote them on two stone tablets.(D)
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- 4.13 Heb the ten words
Deuteronomy 4:8
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8 And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this entire law that I am setting before you today?
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Exodus 20:22
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The Law concerning the Altar
22 The Lord said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites: You have seen for yourselves how I spoke with you from heaven.(A)
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