Discovery BoxExodus 23:22 
Context23:22 But if you diligently obey him 1 and do all that I command, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will be an adversary to your adversaries.
Exodus 24:7
Context24:7 He took the Book of the Covenant 2 and read it aloud 3 to the people, and they said, “We are willing to do and obey 4 all that the Lord has spoken.”
Exodus 34:11
Context34:11 “Obey 5 what I am commanding you this day. I am going to drive out 6 before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
1 tn The infinitive absolute here does not add as great an emphasis as normal, but emphasizes the condition that is being set forth (see GKC 342-43 §113.o).
2 tn The noun “book” would be the scroll just written containing the laws of chaps. 20-23. On the basis of this scroll the covenant would be concluded here. The reading of this book would assure the people that it was the same that they had agreed to earlier. But now their statement of willingness to obey would be more binding, because their promise would be confirmed by a covenant of blood.
3 tn Heb “read it in the ears of.”
4 tn A second verb is now added to the people’s response, and it is clearly an imperfect and not a cohortative, lending support for the choice of desiderative imperfect in these commitments – “we want to obey.” This was their compliance with the covenant.
5 tn The covenant duties begin with this command to “keep well” what is being commanded. The Hebrew expression is “keep for you”; the preposition and the suffix form the ethical dative, adding strength to the imperative.
6 tn Again, this is the futur instans use of the participle.
