Deuteronomy 5:2-3 - The Decalogue The Basis Of The Covenant, The Essence Of The Whole Law, And The Condition Of Life And

Not with our fathers , the patriarchs (cf. Deuteronomy 4:37 .) The covenant to which Moses refers is not that made with Abraham, but that made at Sinai, with Israel as a people; and though the individuals who were then present had all perished with the exception of Moses, Joshua, and Caleb, the nation survived, and as it was with the nation as an organic whole that the covenant had been made. it might be with propriety said that it was made with those whom Moses addressed at this time, inasmuch as they constituted the nation.