(These are just a few proofs in each instance of a covenant)

1) Blood/Service Covenant: Gen. 3:1-24; 6:8-9; 22; 9:8-17

2) Salt/Friendship Covenant: Gen. 15:6; 17:9-10; 18:5; Lev. 2:13; Num. 18:19; 2Chron. 13:5; Ezra 4:14; Matt 5:13; 22:12; 26:50; Mark 9:49-50; Luke 14:10,34; John 3:29; Col. 4:6

3) Threshold/Guard Covenant: Gen. 19:1-11; Exo. 12:7, 22-23; 21:25-26, John 10:1-9; Rev. 3:8, 20

4) Sandal/Inheritance Covenant: Gen. 14:23; 18:2-14; Exo. 3:5; Deu. 25:9-10; Ruth 3:4-14;Matt. 19:29; 25:34; Mark 10:17-22; Luke 7: 44-47; 10:25-28; 18:18-23; Rev. 21:6-7

This is a huge inclusion to this covenant. When I was discussing this covenant with the qahal I added that the preferred method of marking a person’s property lines in ancient Yisrael was to take a worn out sandal and to place stones on the top of it to mark it, which is a matter of fact. The sandal was a distinct work by a craftsman and everyone familiar with that family could identify their clansmen by their sandals. Sandals were used to transfer ownership, please look at Ruth 4:8-9. My little sister, Sandra, quickly pointed out a certain scripture that had huge implications: Deu 29:5  “And I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your garments have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn out on your feet. ((This is not proof that they were in the Wilderness for 40 rather than 42. Before they went into the edge of the promise land they were in the Wilderness of Sinai 2 years and then in the Wilderness of Paran: Num 10:11  And it came to be on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from above the Dwelling Place of the Witness. Num 10:12  And the children of Yisra’ĕl departed, setting out from the Wilderness of Sinai. And the cloud dwelt on it in the Wilderness of Paran.)) It wan’t until after this that the 40 years of wandering began.

If worn out sandals were used to mark the corners of an Yisraelite’s property, then the reason for the sandals of the Yisraelites not wearing out during their 42(not 40) years in the Wilderness is because they had no home or Inheritance, in the Wilderness. It wasn’t until they moved into the promised Land that their sandals began to wear out and were used as property corners. AWESOME!!!

5) Betrothal/Marriage Covenant: ((This is the most difficult covenant to document because the scriptures are filled with references to this covenant.))

Exodus 19 gives us a detailed look at a Hebrew wedding. Notice it talks of being set-apart and washing their garments, this in itself is called the Mikveh of Sanctification, which the bride would do in a stream of running water with her bridesmaids attending her.

Exodus 20 is the Ketubah conditions. Jer 18:13; 31:4, 13, 21; 46:11; Lam. 1:15; 2:13; Amos 5:2; Matt. 25:1-12; John 3:29; 2 Cor. 11:2; Rev. 18:3; 21:2; 21:9; 22:17

There are many many more but these are a start. Remember, Isa. 50:1 and Jer. 3:8 tell of YHVH divorcing Yisrael. This is the reason the Yeshua came, to restore us to a covenant relationship with YHVH.

Rom 7:1  Or do you not know, brothers – for I speak to those knowing the Torah – that the Torah rules over a man as long as he lives?

Rom 7:2  For the married woman has been bound by Torah to the living husband, but if the husband dies, she is released from the Torah concerning her husband.

Rom 7:3  So then, while her husband lives, she shall be called an adulteress if she becomes another man’s. But if her husband dies, she is free from that part of the Torah, so that she is not an adulteress, having become another man’s.

Rom 7:4  So my brothers, you also were put to death to the Torah through the body of Messiah, for you to become another’s, the One who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to Elohim.

This is what Sha’ul so eloquently is talking about in the above scripture. Since YHVH is immortal He could not die, freeing Yisrael from its Certificate of Divorce but Yeshua could. By Yeshua dying Yisrael is released from its divorce and can now marry its bridegroom, who rose from the dead a new man. AWESOME!!!