[[Exod-24]] Prev: [[Prophecies in Exod-23]] | Next: [[Prophecies in Exod-25]] --- ### He said to Moses, "Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance. ... Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up. They saw the God of Israel." *Type*: fulfillment *Summary*: The ascension of the elders and Moses to worship God on the mountain fulfills the specific sign promised to Moses at the start of his mission. *Historical context*: Theologians identify this event as the fulfillment of the divine sign given in [[Exod-03#v12|Exodus 3:12]], where God promised Moses: 'When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God upon this mountain.' This serves as a historical and narrative confirmation that the Exodus was divinely commissioned. *Related to*: [[Exod-03#v12|Exodus 3:12]] ### Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words." *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: The establishment of the 'blood of the covenant' acts as a prophetic prefiguration (or 'type') of the New Covenant to be established in the future. *Historical context*: Historians of the New Testament and theologians note that this ritual is explicitly cited by Jesus in the Gospel accounts ([[Matt-26#v28|Matthew 26:28]], [[Mark-14#v24|Mark 14:24]]) and by the author of Hebrews ([[Heb-09#v18|Hebrews 9:18]]-22) as the prophetic template for the 'New Covenant.' Jesus' words 'This is my blood of the covenant' directly echo the language of [[Exod-24#v8|Exodus 24:8]] to signal the fulfillment of the sacrificial system. *Related to*: ### Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them." *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: God makes a specific prediction and promise to provide physical tablets containing the divine law to Moses. *Historical context*: This promise is fulfilled later in the narrative of the Pentateuch, specifically in [[Exod-31#v18|Exodus 31:18]], when God completes the communication of the law and gives Moses 'the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.' *Related to*: --- #ai_prophecy