Deuteronomy 8:11-20
8:15 a water from the rock! See Exod 17:6 b; Num 20:2-13 c; see also Deut 1:37 d.8:18 e This was not the covenant that God made with the previous generation of Israelites at Sinai but the one he first made with Abraham (Gen 15:1-21 f; 17:1-21 g), then Isaac (Gen 26:1-5 h) and Jacob (Gen 28:1-4 i, 13-15 j; 46:1-4 k).
• In order to be legal and proper, a covenant had to be sworn to with an oath that all parties to the agreement uttered. Although by his very nature God could never rescind a promise, he honored the protocol (see Deut 7:12 l).
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