Verses 23 to 27 constitute one of the clearest explanations of the purpose and meaning of the Old Testament, the old covenant. The old law of Moses was given by Jehovah to point to Christ. They are, of course, the same Person: Jehovah would later come as Christ (Alma 34:14; Galatians 3:24). Everything he required his people to live, through Moses, was to prepare them for the higher law, which came in the form of the Sermon on the Mount and other elevated teachings during his mortal and postmortal ministry, when, as he declared, “The law is fulfilled that was given unto Moses. Behold, I am he that gave the law … ; therefore, the law in me is fulfilled … ; therefore it hath an end” (3 Nephi 15:4–5). For some Nephites, more than five hundred years before the Savior’s mortal mission, “the law hath become dead unto us, and we are made alive in Christ because of our faith.”