Covenants involve, not an exchange of property, but an exchange of persons. You don’t give somebody your services or goods when you swear a covenant oath—you swear to give them yourself. Marriage is a good example. It’s a covenant because in the exchange of vows, the woman gives herself to the man and the man gives himself to the woman. As we will see in the next lesson, when God says to Israel, “You will be my people and I will be your God,” that’s a covenant. What’s happening is that Israel is