Yitro 2024
Feb 3, 2024 • Brittney Scott
Yitro/”Jethro”, Exodus 18:1-20:23, covers some of the most significant sections of the Torah as it is here that we find Israel’s encounter with Yahweh at Mt. Sinai where they hear His Voice declare the terms of the covenant! Often the mindset is that this moment is the giving of the Torah, and that this is the purpose of this encounter. Yet Yitro causes us to have a paradigm shift! Directly before Israel’s encounter, we see a whole chapter (Exodus 18) dealing with the fact and revealing that Israel obviously already knew the Torah and the laws! Why then are they brought here?