Sentences with phrase «covenant lays upon»

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A further distinction, important to make but not self - evident, is the extent to which Israel simply took over prevailing social regulations, and on the other hand, gave unique and distinctive meaning to the duties they believed laid upon them by their covenant with Yahweh.

The new start for the human race, embodied in Noah and his family, is marked by a divine covenant, modeled ultimately on the treaties imposed unilaterally in some ANE empires by suzerains on their vassals, consisting of promises by the overlord and obligations laid upon his subjects.

Ancient covenants sometimes laid greater stress upon the role, obligations, and commitment of the junior or subordinate party to the covenant.

One needs, therefore, both privately and publicly to «renew his covenant with God,» or in diction now heard less often than in an earlier day, to «lay all upon the altar.»