Then the Lord said to Moses: write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel. God commands Moses to write the covenant words. The covenant is textual: it exists in written form because the written form makes it binding and transmissible across generations. 2 Timothy 3:16 says all Scripture is God-breathed — the writing of the covenant at Sinai is the founding act of the inscripturated covenant that the entire biblical canon expands. The written word that makes the covenant durable across generations is the foundation of the community that lives by those words.

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