that the New Covenant is superior to the Mosaic Covenant that it replaced (Hebrews 8:6–13). We as God’s people today are under the New Covenant and enter into relationship with God through faith in his son, Jesus. Understanding this covenantal framework may well help us to better understand the laws of the Old Testament and how we should relate to them now. Since the laws are contained in the Mosaic Covenant, they were highly relevant to the Jews who made up the nation. Those laws were written for
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