The term Book of the Covenant has more than one meaning.
- It may refer to the Torah in its entirety as understood by classical Judaism.
- Books of the Covenant - Two books in the canon of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
- Covenant Code - The name given by academics to a text appearing in the Torah at Exodus 21:2 - 23:33.
- Kitáb-i-`Ahd - Written by Bahá'u'lláh, and part of the text of the Bahá'í Faith.
- The Book of the Covenant mentioned in the bible at Exodus 24:7
Famous quotes containing the words book of, book and/or covenant:
“Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“What was really horrifying about jail is that it really isn’t horrifying. You adjust very easily.”
—Roberta Victor, U.S. prostitute. As quoted in Working, book 2, by Studs Terkel (1973)
“Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)