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"The Horizontal Society", tidbit 1
Oct. 16th, 2008 12:39 pm5. The Berit (‘Covenant’) Sinai-Moab
Israel was constituted by a duly drawn document or bilateral berit (‘covenant’), formally contracted by the people and God. Let us note, at the outset, that in accordance to Jewish and standard legal procedure, the covenant registered the date and locale where it was negotiated—the first document in history duly listing [i] the chronological time, and [ii] the geographical locale in which the transaction took place: “On the first day of the third month of the Exodus of Egypt, on that very day, they arrived at the Sinai Desert” (Ex 19:1). As in contract law, the berit was grounded on the principle of ‘offer and acceptance.’ It was executed in four steps.
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Israel was constituted by a duly drawn document or bilateral berit (‘covenant’), formally contracted by the people and God. Let us note, at the outset, that in accordance to Jewish and standard legal procedure, the covenant registered the date and locale where it was negotiated—the first document in history duly listing [i] the chronological time, and [ii] the geographical locale in which the transaction took place: “On the first day of the third month of the Exodus of Egypt, on that very day, they arrived at the Sinai Desert” (Ex 19:1). As in contract law, the berit was grounded on the principle of ‘offer and acceptance.’ It was executed in four steps.
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