Leviticus 26:46

The colophon 'these are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses' formally closes the Holiness Code (Leviticus 17–26) with a covenantal identification of the legal corpus as divinely mediated treaty. The triple designation — statutes (chuqqim), judgments (mishpatim), and laws (torot) — employs the full vocabulary of legal formulation, insisting on the comprehensive authority of the entire Sinaitic covenant that the chapters contain. The mention of Moses as the human mediator ('by the hand of Moses') is theologically significant: it grounds the legislation in a specific historical-covenantal moment rather than timeless religious obligation. Paul's reference to the Mosaic covenant as given 'through angels in the hand of a mediator' (Galatians 3:19) engages this mediation language to argue for the covenant's temporary and conditional character relative to the promise.