The principal condition for receiving Torah was the Jewish Nation's adopting the rule of, "All that Hashem has said we shall do and we shall hear" (Shemos 24:7). Only following their embracing of this axiom did HaKodosh Boruch Hu seal a covenant with Klal Yisroel to receive the Torah: "Moshe took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people, and he said, `Behold the blood of the covenant which Hashem has made with you concerning all these matters'" (Ibid., v. 8). (Although part of Parshas Mishpotim, according to many commentaries this chapter shifts back to Matan Torah at Mt. Sinai.)