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A COVENANT usually means a compact between two parties, delivered in solemn form, and requiring mutual engagements. As employed in Scripture, from the nature of the case, it must also be extended to mean God’s promise by which He binds Himself to His creatures without terms, absolutely (Jer. 33:20; Ex. 34:10). Gesenius derives the term from the verb “to cut” (Isa. 57:8, margin), as it is a Hebrew phrase “to cut a covenant,” and it was customary for the purpose of ratifying such, to divide an animal in parts (Gen. 15:10, 17). Others derive it from the verb “to eat together,” thus explaining the phrase “covenant of salt” (Num. 18:19; 2 Chron. 13:5).
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