In order for God to establish His covenant with Abraham, Abraham was required to leave his home and go to the promised land. (Gen. 12:1-3)
I believe I said, Abraham was not bound to fulfill anything in the covenant. God bound Himself to fulfill all. Thus why the 'Huh' earlier if you agree.
Genesis 26
So
Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines. 2 The Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; stay in the land of which I shall tell you. 3 Sojourn in this land and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I
will establish the oath which I swore to your father Abraham.
4 I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your descendants all these lands; and by
your descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; 5 because Abraham obeyed Me and
kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes and My laws.”
(Gen. 26:5) "Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."
As I have said, Abraham did obey God
Indeed he did -- God says that he "
kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes and My laws.”
So then - no
taking God's name in vain - for Abraham
No worship of false Gods' for Abraham
No bowing down before images for Abraham
No dishonor to parents for Abraham
You know... the usual.
There were no written commandments, laws, or statutes.
God's Word is law even when no person comes after Him and "writes it down" -- as it turns out.
God tells Isaac that the covenant made with Abraham is made with Isaac "because" Abraham
obeyed Me and
kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes and My laws and of course "sin IS" by definition "transgression of the LAW" 1 John 3:4
Your point that God's commandments, statutes, laws were not in "written form" at the time - is a non-issue. God's Word says they existed and His Word says Abraham obeyed them. This is Moses writing in Genesis 26... and Moses uses that same phrase in several places to identify God's
commandments, statutes and laws
Your argument at this point is
"with the text"
Indeed He did.
Abraham in obeying the 'voice' of God was obeying God's charge, commandments and statutes and laws.
True - he did not have to first have it written down.
And the words of the covenant are passed on to Isaac ONLY because "Abraham KEPT" - "God's
commandments, statutes and laws " as we see in Genesis 26.
Clearly the book of Genesis is not "an exhaustive account of every word spoken for the first 2500 years of human history". as I am sure we all agree.
But Moses is the author of Genesis, and Exodus and Leviticus -- and so the reader knows that term... that phrase that Moses keeps using.
Ezek 18 and Matthew 18 teach "forgiveness revoked" when we have a case where Abraham does NOT keep the Commandments, Statutes and Laws - but rather turns from that life and instead adopts some form of rebellion