“Specially the day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.”
Remember the day you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, 'Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children' -- the Sinai assembly is recalled as the formative theophany. The purpose: to fear (yare, to revere) the LORD and transmit that reverence to the next generation. Fear of the LORD (yirat YHWH) is the beginning of all covenant keeping. The generational transmission is integral to the covenant's perpetuation.
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