The First Covenant

By Apostle William Korir

Ex 20:1 And God spoke all these words, saying:

 2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

 3 "You shall have no other gods before Me.

 4 "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;

 5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

 7 "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

 8 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.

 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

 12 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

 13 "You shall not murder.

 14 "You shall not commit adultery.

 15 "You shall not steal.

 16 "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

 17 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."

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.Deuteronomy  5:1 And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgements which I speak in your hearing today, that you may learn them and be careful to observe them.

 2 "The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

 3 "The LORD did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, those who are here today, all of us who are alive.

 4 "The LORD talked with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire.

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The Ten Commandments were binding to the children of Israel in the new covenant.  It did not apply to Gentiles as referred to then. - the people of all other nations. The people of other nations had no Laws, had no God, and were never part of the Commonwealth of Israel. The first Covenant issued at Mount Sinai was for the people of Israel only. 

Prophet Jeremiah announced the issuance of another New Covenant at a later date which is different from the Mt. Sinai Covenant. In the New Covenant Laws were to be written in the hearts of men. Jeremiah 31:31-34. 

Jesus launched the New Covenant hours before his arrest, Crucifixion and death at the Calvary cross.