“And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the Lord hath said will we do.”
When Moses came and told the people all the Lord's words and laws, they responded with one voice: everything the Lord has said we will do. The covenant acceptance in verse 3 is unanimous and vocal: one voice, everything. The response is the community's formal acceptance of the covenant terms laid out in Exodus 20–23. The recitation of all the Lord's words before the acceptance is significant: consent must be informed. The people are not agreeing to unspecified obligations but to the specific words they have just heard. Acts 2:37 records the crowd asking what shall we do in response to Peter's preaching — the covenant response of Exodus 24:3 is the pattern for every subsequent covenant-responsive community. Hearing the word and responding with communal commitment is the basic shape of covenant entry.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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