Ancient Israel, freed from Egyptian oppression, meets with Yahweh, their redeemer. Yahweh instructs Moses in how to lead a sacrificial ritual that will bind the people into a covenant relationship with them, conditional upon both parties keeping their promises to each other. This covenant is known as the Old Covenant or Old Testament. The ritual itself, however, gives us additional insight into Yahweh's Missional objective that would unfold centuries later in a covenant that would replace the Old Covenant with a New one, the New Testament.

Yahweh's Social Laws, based his command to love our neighbors as ourselves, can be organized into 3 main categories.

1. Caring for the disadvantaged, the poor, fatherless, widows and foreigners.

2. Maintaining Justice for all in the courts

3. Defending the Personal and Property rights of others.

This podcast quotes from the Mosaic Covenant giving examples of these social laws that are still in effect in Yahweh's New Messianic Covenant era today.

Following Israel’s covenant commitment at Mount Sinai, Aaron gives Yahweh’s blessing to the people as they begin their journey to the Promised Land. What should have been a month or two trek for the 2 Million strong Israelite nation takes 40 years as recorded in the book of Numbers.

Moses, Israel’s reluctant but faithful leader of ancient Israel has been Yahweh’s representative authority since their remarkable deliverance from Egypt to the boarder of the promised land 40 years later. Following the death of the 1st generation out of Egypt due to their unfaithfulness, the second generation is about to enter the land. Moses takes this opportunity to deliver his final words of advice before handing the robe of leadership to another and breathing his last.