Gal 3: 13 reads: "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, [he] being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree". Notice that Christ freed us from the curse of the law and not from the Law.

In the book of Acts chapter seven and beginning in verse twenty (Acts 7: 20) the Bible speaks of Mosese being born and his upbringing in his father's house, then three months later, the house of Pharaoh. Being raised up by God to deliver His people, Israel, from bondage, he (Moses) was rejected by his own people and fled to Madian after he killed an Egyptian in the defense of a Hebrew. Forty years later God spoke to him in a burning bush and sent him back to Egypt where he would lead God's people out of Egypt. As we get to verse thirty-seven and thirty-eight (Acts 7: 37-38) we read: "This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, a prophet (Christ) shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear. This is he (Moses) that was in the church in the wilderness..." The children of Israel were a nation unto God (Ex. 19: 6), but they were also God's physical church in the wilderness. Therefore, as a church God gave them His spiritual laws -- the Ten Commandments. He also gave them ordinances that were to keep them in remembrance of their sins until Christ should come. As a nation God also gave them statutes and judgements to govern them. As we already saw, the ordinances were laws regarding animal sacrifices and such other rituals.

In Deut. 27: 1 we read: "And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, keep all the commandments which I command you this day. Notice that Moses spoke of "all the commandments" which he received from God for the people. Moses then instructs the people to build an altar of stone when they enter the promised land, which they would then plaster. They were to write all "the words of the law" on that alter (Deut. 27: 2, 3). Then in Deut. 27: 10- 16 we read: "Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the Lord thy God, and do His commandments and His statutes, which I command thee this day. And Moses charged the people the same day, saying, these [of the tribes of Israel] shall stand upon mount Ge-ri-zim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Is-sa-char, and Joseph, and Benjamin: And these [of the tribes of Israel] shall stand upon mount E-bal to curse; Ruben, Gad, and Asher, and Ze-bulun, Dan and Naph-ta-li. And the Levites shall speak and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice, cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the Lord" ... These words come straight from the "Ten Commandments" (Ex. 20: 4). He continues in verse sixteen (Deut. 27: 16): "Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, A-men".