ISRAEL--ORIGINAL THEOCRACY

THE CHILDREN
OF ABRAHAM

ORIGINALLY A 
THEOCRACY

NATIONS & GOD

GENESIS 12:

1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram,  Get thee out of thy country, and from thy  kindred, and from thy father's house,  unto a land that I will shew thee: 2 And I will make of thee a great nation,  and I will bless thee, and make thy name  great; and thou shalt be a blessing 3 And I will bless them that bless thee,  and curse him that curseth thee: and  in thee shall all families of the earth  be blessed.

GENESIS 17:

1 And when Abram was ninety * * years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be  thou perfect. 2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee,  and will multiply thee  exceedingly *. 3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, 4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou  shalt be a father of many nations. 5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be  Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee. 6 And I will make thee exceeding * * fruitful, and I will make nations of thee,   and kings shall come out of thee. 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and the e and thy seed after thee  in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to b e a God unto thee, and to  thy seed after thee.

8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the  and wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for  an everlasting possession; and I will be their God

I WILL BE 
THEIR GOD

24 And the LORD said unto him, Away, get  thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and  Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and  the people break through to come up unto  the LORD, lest he break forth upon them 25 So Moses went down unto the people, and  spake unto them.

1 And God spake all these words, saying 2 I am the LORD thy God, which have  brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out  of the house of bondage3 Thou shalt have  no other gods before me 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven  image, or any likeness of any thing that is  in heaven above, or that is in the earth  beneath, or that is in the water under the  earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them,  nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God  am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the  fathers upon the children unto the third and  fourth generation of them that hate me 6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them  that love me, and keep my commandments. 7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD  thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold  him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy  work10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of  the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any  work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and  earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and  rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD  blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that  thy days may be long upon the land which  the LORD thy God giveth thee. 13 Thou shalt not kill. 14 Thou shalt not commit adultery 16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against  thy neighbour. 17 Thou shalt not covet thy  neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy  neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor  his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor  any thing that is thy neighbour's 18 And all the people saw the thunderings,  and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and  when the people saw it, they removed, and  stood afar off.

EXODUS 19:

3 And Moses went up unto God, and the  LORD called unto him out of the  mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to  the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel 4 Ye have seen what I did unto the  Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles ' wings, and brought you unto myself. 5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice  indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye  shall be a peculiar treasure unto me  above all people: for all the earth is mine:  6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of  priests, and an holy nation. These are the  words which thou shalt speak unto the  children of Israel.

THE CHILDREN OF   ISRAEL: A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS   AND AN HOLY NATION

Torah Level: Basic • Torah in the  narrowest sense refers to the first five books  of the Bible • In a broader sense,  Torah includes all  Jewish law and  tradition • Torah was given  to Moses in written form with oral  commentary • The oral component  is now written in the Talmud • There are  additional important  writings

Torah" is a tricky one, because it can mean  different things in different contexts.  In its most limited sense,  "Torah" refers to the Five Books ofMoses: Genesis, Exodus,  Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. But the word "torah" can also be used to refer to the entire Jewish bible (the body  of scripture known to non-Jews as the Old Testament and to Jews as the Tanakh or Written Torah), or in its broadest sense, to the whole body of Jewish law and teachings

Written Torah To Jews, there is no "Old Testament." The  books that Christians call the New Testament are not part of Jewish scripture.  The so-called Old Testament is known to us as Written Torah or the Tanakh. This is a list of the books of Written Torah,  in the order in which they appear in Jewish  translations, with the Hebrew name of  thebook, a translation of the Hebrew name  (where it is not the same as the English name), and English names of the books  (where it is not the same as the Hebrew  name). The Hebrew names of the first  five books are derived from the first  few words of the book. The text of each  bookis more or less the same in Jewish translations as what you see in Christian  bibles, although there are some occasional, slight differences in the  numbering of verses  and there are some significant differences  in the translations.

The SEPTUAGINT  LXX  an early translation of  Old Testament was Well known and used extensively By Jews and Christians Apostles alike, particurly Paul

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