What was the setting when God gave the Law at Mount Sinai?
Israel had come out of Egypt under Moses and camped around Mount Sinai. God called Moses up into the mountain, which was on fire with smoke. Moses remained there forty days and forty nights while God wrote the Ten Commandments on tables of stone, the moral law.
Les explains that the setting for the giving of the Law is that Israel came out of Egypt under Moses, and Moses led them to Mount Sinai. The people were camped around the mountain. God called Moses up into the mountain, which was on fire with smoke, and Moses was up there for forty days and forty nights. During that time God wrote the Ten Commandments on tables of stone. Those Ten Commandments are basically what is referred to as the law, the moral law. Les also notes that no other nation has ever experienced anything like that.
Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
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What is the moral law that God wrote on stone tablets?
The 'law' or 'moral law' that Paul speaks of in Romans 9:4 is the Ten Commandments, which God wrote on stone tablets while Moses was on Mount Sinai for forty days and forty nights.