The Nugget:
Exodus 24:3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.
Exodus 24:4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
My Comment:
The Scriptures reveal the laws, statutes, and judgments of God. These were revealed to Moses, and Moses wrote them down. The people of Israel solemnly promised to obey all the words of the Lord. Subsequent history demonstrates promises are much easier to make than keep! Some scholars have argued that Moses could not have written what the Bible says he did. They thought that writing had not been invented that early. They thought the words the Lord gave to Moses were handed down orally, and only committed to writing much later. Even yet there are remnants of this misinformed scholarship that show up in the writings of so-called liberal and modernistic scholarship. These scholars came up with a theory involving the letters J, D, E, and P, as I recall, representing different strands of writers involved in piecing together over many centuries the narratives in the Old Testament. The Bible declares otherwise, and I suspect these scholarly denials of Mosaic authorship and the divine inspiration of Scripture have for the most part fallen to the wayside. Take note that Jesus affirmed that “Moses wrote” when He said, “For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me” (John 5:46). We can rest assured that the Bible is true, and its information can be depended upon.
For those who desire to DIG DEEPER into this subject:
(1) Consult the cross references given in Nelson’s Cross Reference Guide to the Bible on pages 97-98 for Exodus 24:3-4.
(2) Consult the cross references given in The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge on page 112 or in Logos 5 Bible software for Exodus 24:3-4.
(3) Lacking access to those two resources, consult the cross references for this passage as I have developed them as given below:
Exodus 24:3. and told. Dt 5:5. all the judgments. Ex ch. 21-23. Ex 21:1. Dt 4:1n, 5, 45. 5:1, 31. 6:1. 11:1. All the words. ver. 7. Ex 19:8. Dt 5:27, 28. Jsh 24:22. Je 43:1. Ac 5:20. Ga *3:19, 20. will we do. ver. 7. Jsh 24:21, 25. Jg %2:20. 2 K *23:3. Ps *50:5. Je 2:2, +*20. +*11:4. 34:13. Jn 7:19. Ep +*2:12. He 8:9, 10. 9:18.
Exodus 24:4. Moses wrote. Ex 34:27, 28. Nu 21:14. 33:2. Dt 17:18, 19. 27:3, 8. 28:58, 61. 29:20, 21, 27. *31:9, 19, 22, 24, 26. Jsh 1:8. 8:31, 34. 23:6. 24:26. 1 S 10:25. 1 K 2:3. 2 K +14:6n. *22:8n. 23:3, 21, 24. 1 Ch 16:40. 2 Ch *17:9. 25:4. 31:3. +*34:14n. 35:12. Ezr 3:2. Ne 8:1. 9:3. 13:1. Da 9:11, 13. Mk 12:26. Lk 4:17. *16:31. 20:42. Jn 1:45. 5:45, **46, 47. 7:19. Ac 1:20. Ga 3:10. He 9:19. rose up early. Ex 32:6. 34:4. Ge 20:8. *+21:14. *22:3. 28:18. 31:55. 2 Ch 29:20. and builded an altar. Ex 20:24-26. 27:1. Ge 8:20. Dt 27:5. 2 K %16:10. 1 Ch 21:26. Is 19:19. twelve pillars. Ge 28:18, 22. 31:45. Jsh 24:27. 1 K 18:31. Ga 2:9. according. Ex 28:21. Le 24:5. Nu 17:2. Jsh 4:2, 3, 8, 9, 20. 1 K 11:30. Ezr 6:17. Lk 22:30. Re 21:14. the twelve. Mt 19:28. Ja 1:1. of Israel. 2 Ch 11:3.
ex 24.3-4 and moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord,
and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and
said, All the words which the Lord hath said will we do. vs 4 and moses
wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and
builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the
twelve tribes of israel.
encouraging cross refs.
1 dt 4.1 Now THEREFORE, hearken, O Israel, unto the statues and
unto the judgments, which i teach you, for to do them, that ye may
live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your
fathers giveth you.
2. dt 4.5 Behold, i have taught you statues and judgments, even as
the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land
whither ye go to possess it.
3. dt 5.1 And moses called all israel, and said unto them, Hear, O
israel, the statues and judgments which i speak in your ears this
day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
4. dt 5.31 But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and i will speak unto
thee all the commandments, and the statues, and the judgments, which
thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which i give
them to possess it.
5. jos 24.22 And joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against
yourselves that ye have chosen you the Lord to serve him. and they said,
We are witnesses.
6. 1 ki 8.56 Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest unto his people Israel,
according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his
good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.