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The name given by academics to a text appearing in the Torah, at Exodus 20:22-23:19 For other meanings of 'Book of the Covenant', see Book of the Covenant (disambiguation) . The Covenant Code , or Book of the Covenant , is the name given by academics to a text appearing in the Torah , at Exodus 20:22 - 23:19 ; or, more strictly, the term Covenant Code may be applied to Exodus 21:1-22:16. Biblically, the text is the second of the law codes given to Moses by God at Mount Sinai . This legal text provides a small but substantive proportion of the mitzvot within the Torah, and hence is a source of Jewish Law . Raymond Westbrook, "What is the Covenant Code?" in Theory and Method in Biblical and Cuneiform Law: Revision, Interpolation and Development , ed.
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The opening as it stood in 2010
The Covenant Code , or alternatively Book of the Covenant , is the name given by academics to a text appearing in the Torah at Exodus 20:19 - 23:33 . Biblically, the text is the second of the law codes given to Moses by God at Mount Sinai . This legal text provides a small, but substantive proportion of the mitzvot within the torah, and hence is a source of Jewish Law .
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The opening as it stood in 2015
The Covenant Code , or The Book of the Covenant , is the name given by academics to a text appearing in the Torah at Exodus 20:19 – 23:33 . Biblically, the text is the second of the law codes given to Moses by God at Mount Sinai . This legal text provides a small, but substantive proportion of the mitzvot within the Torah, and hence is a source of Jewish Law .
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Exodus 20:22-23:19 For other meanings of 'Book of the Covenant', see Book of the Covenant (disambiguation) . The Covenant Code , or Book of the Covenant , is the name given by academics to a text appearing in the Torah , at Exodus 20:22 – 23:19 ; or, more strictly, the term Covenant Code may be applied to Exodus 21:1–22:16. Biblically, the text is the second of the law codes said to have been given to Moses by God at Mount Sinai . This legal text provides a small but substantive proportion of the mitzvot (religious duties) within the Torah, and hence is a source of Jewish Law . Raymond Westbrook, "What is the Covenant Code?" in Theory and Method in Biblical and Cuneiform Law: Revision, Interpolation and Development , ed.
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name given by academics to a text appearing in the torah at exodus 20
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name given by academics to a text appearing in the torah
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