What was the book of the covenant?

[runandsew]

In Exodus Chapter 24 verse 7, Moses reads from the book of the covenant. What was that book?
The had barely gotten into Sinai, and he hadn’t been given the stone tablets yet.

 

[thistle]

In Exodus Chapter 24 verse 7, Moses reads from the book of the covenant. What was that book?
The had barely gotten into Sinai, and he hadn’t been given the stone tablets yet.

I read somewhere that the Book of the Covenant is Exodus 21-23 but other posters may know better.

 

[FightingFat]

The Covenant Code, or alternatively Book of the Covenant, is the name given by academics to a text appearing in the Torah at Exodus 21:2 - 23:33. Biblically, the text is the second of the law codes given to Moses, by Yahweh, at Mount Sinai. This legal text provides a small, but substantive, proportion of the mitzvot within the torah, and hence is a source of Jewish Law.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant_Code

 

[Valke2]

In Exodus Chapter 24 verse 7, Moses reads from the book of the covenant. What was that book?
The had barely gotten into Sinai, and he hadn’t been given the stone tablets yet.

It is perhaps more accurately translated as “the record of the covenant”. And while Moses had not been given the tablets yet, he had been given other commands (see end of Chapter 23).