Ten words from Sinai
The Ten Commandments, read in context
They start with a rescue, not a rule. God reminds Israel who brought them out of Egypt before he asks anything of them. This path reads Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 side by side, one commandment at a time.
The LORD’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. The LORD’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
What you'll come away with
What this path is for
Not a reading streak. These are the things you should be able to do on your own once you have worked through it.
Know all ten
In your church's order, and why other churches count differently. You will be able to list them and say what each one protects.
Read the law as a gift
The commandments come after the exodus, not before it. You will see why that order changes how they read.
Compare Exodus and Deuteronomy
The Sabbath command gives two different reasons. You will learn what each one adds.
See how Jesus reads them
Murder and anger, adultery and lust, love of God and neighbor. You will trace how Jesus takes each command deeper.
How the tutor works
A tutor, not a search box
The same eight habits run through every path. They are what make this study rather than summary.
Questions first
Every lesson asks before it tells. A few quick questions check what you noticed, then Trinity explains the answer.
Greek and Hebrew, one tap away
Tap a word to see the Greek or Hebrew behind it. See what it can mean and where else it shows up.
Follow the thread
Pick one image, promise, or line. Follow it from Genesis through the prophets into the Gospels.
- Map
Galilee
LetterPhilippians
- From
- Paul, in prison
- To
- the church at Philippi
- Why
- thanks, and joy
TimelineWhere it sits
- Abraham
- Moses
- David
- Exile
- Jesus
Context that clicks
Maps, timelines, and who wrote it to whom. Get the background the first readers already knew.
Genesis
Exodus
Psalms
Beatitudes
John
Hebrews
Lord's Prayer
Parables
Acts
Corinthians
Romans
Revelation
Isaiah
I AM Sayings
Proverbs
26 paths and counting
Walk through a whole book, Genesis to Revelation, or take a short theme like the Beatitudes or the Lord's Prayer.
Bring your doubts
Ask the question you'd never ask out loud. Trinity takes it seriously, no judgment.
Feb5Maya's questions
Added 6w agoWants to know why Jesus calls the poor blessed. Reads on the train.
Apr12Next up
Just addedBeatitudes, lesson 3: the gentle. Her Bible says meek, so start there.
Pick up where you left off
Trinity keeps notes on your questions and where you stopped. Next time, it starts right there.
Every side, fairly told
On baptism, the end times, and more, you get the main views and their best arguments. Disputed questions are labelled as disputed.
The path itself
What you'll study, in order
Each unit builds on the one before it. Lessons live inside Trinity; this is the shape of the ground you will cover.
Before Sinai
Out of Egypt first
What a covenant is
Two tablets
How the ten are numbered
Loving God
No other gods
No idols
God's name
The Sabbath
Life and family
Father and mother
Murder and anger
Adultery and faithfulness
Truth and wanting
Stealing
False testimony
Coveting
The one nobody can see
After Jesus
You have heard it said
The greatest commandment
Christians and the Sabbath
Obeying without earning
I've led a small group for six years, and honestly I was mostly repeating Sunday's sermon. Trinity kept asking what the passage actually said before it would tell me anything. Our Thursday nights are better for it.
I was baptized in March and still couldn't find anything in the Bible. I asked what a psalm even is, which felt embarrassing to type. It showed me Psalm 13, a man complaining to God. I didn't know that was allowed.
I mostly use it for word study. When I'm stuck on a Greek term, it walks me through what it can mean without pretending the question is settled. It's told me "scholars disagree here" more than once, which I respect.
Forty years in church and I'd never finished the Bible. I'm in Numbers now. Not thrilling, but I'm still going. Most days I read it before the kettle's boiled.
I'm not sure I believe any of it yet. I came in wanting to argue, and I still do. It argues back properly. It names the best objection before I can, and it doesn't sulk when I won't concede.
I ask it what a fifteen-year-old would really ask about a chapter. It gives me the awkward questions, not the tidy ones. Twice now it's sent me off to study properly, which I suppose is the point.
I read on my phone during my eleven-minute break, and it never tries to make it an hour. Last week it caught that I'd misread who was speaking in Job. It was one of the friends, not God. Changed the whole chapter for me.
I work in two languages, so I'm fussy about words. I asked why one Hebrew word is lovingkindness in one place and steadfast love in another. I got a real answer about hesed, not a devotional paragraph.
I worried it would hand my people easy answers to hard chapters. It mostly doesn't. Someone asked it about hell, and it laid out what Christians have held and said plainly which parts are disputed. I can work with that.
I sit with dying people, so I don't have much patience for cheerfulness. I'd been avoiding the lament psalms. It walked me through Psalm 88, which ends in the dark and stays there, and it didn't rush to fix it.
I'd abandoned three reading plans before this one. I went quiet for a while, came back, and it just carried on. No lecture. I'm in Isaiah now.
Before you start
Questions people ask about this path
The passage has more than ten commands in it, so traditions group them differently. Jewish tradition counts the opening line about leaving Egypt as the first word. Catholics and Lutherans join other gods and idols into one and split coveting into two. Orthodox and most other Protestant churches keep idols separate and coveting whole. All of them are counting the same text.
Christians agree they still show what love of God and neighbor looks like, and Jesus and Paul repeat most of them. They differ on how the law of Moses as a whole applies after Christ, most clearly on the Sabbath. The path lays out the main views.
The list appears twice: at Sinai in Exodus 20, and again in Deuteronomy 5 when Moses repeats it to the next generation. The wording differs in small ways, most clearly in the reason given for the Sabbath. Reading both shows what stays fixed.
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