The Lord did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, all of us who are alive here today.

But as for you, stand here by Me, and I will tell you all the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which you shall teach them, so that they may obey them in the land which I give them to possess.’

Then the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought from Egypt have acted corruptly. They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made (cast) a molten image for themselves.’

“You shall not do at all what we are doing here [in the camp] today, every man doing whatever is right in his [own] eyes.

but with those [future Israelites] who are not here with us today, as well as with those who stand here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God