merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty …’ (Exod. 34:6–7). Laws may be broken, but the covenant can never be broken. One other thing: it is clear that the laws God gave to Israel were not all of the same kind. For example, Exodus 20:3–17 lists the laws we have come to call the Ten Commandments. They were obviously distinctive.