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Covenant Code
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<p>The Covenant Code, or Book of the Covenant, is the name given by academics to a text appearing in the <a href="/facts/Torah/BdJr9IFo">Torah</a>, at <a href="/facts/Book_of_Exodus/7Mse01aP">Exodus</a> <a href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0220.htm#22">20:22</a>–<a href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0223.htm#19">23:19</a>; or, more strictly, the term <i>Covenant Code</i> may be applied to Exodus 21:1–22:16. Biblically, the text is the second of the law codes said to have been given to <a href="/facts/Moses/D0pp5HMQ">Moses</a> by <a href="/facts/God_in_Judaism/ED9TEs27">God</a> at <a href="/facts/Biblical_Mount_Sinai/GrIE078u">Mount Sinai</a>. This legal text provides a small but substantive proportion of the <a href="/facts/Mitzvah/agPGHqUE">mitzvot</a> (religious duties) within the Torah, and hence is a source of <a href="/facts/Jewish_Law/RLYnjLBJ">Jewish Law</a>. </p>