Sentences with phrase «sign of the covenant»

It is, rather, the visible sign of the covenant between God and his people.

The Jews were proud of this outward sign of the covenant, and they despised anyone who was not circumcised.

The LORD then gave these further instructions to Moses: «Tell the people of Israel to keep my Sabbath day, for the Sabbath is a sign of the covenant between me and you forever.

There might be a reason circumcision lost it's significance as a sign of covenant membership... there's only one way to tell who is «in.»

This was because it was a sign of the covenant between God and His holy people, which also expressed the desire of the people to see God and live, and to know that He loved them.

And God said, «This is a sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I set my bow in the sky, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth» [emphasis added].

Alfred de Quervain, for example, in his influential discussion of the Sabbath, Die Heiligung makes the point that in Israel the Sabbath was the sign of the covenant.

The Sabbath was one of the signs of the covenant God made with the Hebrew people.

I am not a Hebrew, therefore, the Sabbath is a not a sign of the covenant God made with me.

The significance of these women for the era in which the sign of the covenant was circumcision can not be underestimated.

And God said, «This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth...» What could be more obvious than that?