Old TestamentLaw
Deuteronomy
BOOK INTRODUCTION
Content for this section will be added before launch — a brief introduction to Deuteronomy, its themes, authorship, and place in the biblical canon.
ALL CHAPTERS34 chapters
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Moses' first address opens Deuteronomy with a retrospecti...
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4
The long detour around Edom and Moab demonstrates the LOR...
3
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The defeat of Og of Bashan, whose iron bed was nine cubit...
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The great appeal to observe the statutes and laws forms t...
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12
The restatement of the Ten Commandments contemporizes the...
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5
The Shema—Hear O Israel: the LORD our God the LORD is one...
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5
The cherem of the seven Canaanite nations—complete separa...
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The assertion that man does not live by bread alone but b...
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Moses' insistence that Israel's possession rests not on i...
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The making of new tablets and the ark, following Moses' i...
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The imperative to love and obey today—because your own ey...
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12
The centralization of worship—destroy all Canaanite worsh...
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15
The testing of false prophecy through their fruits—signs ...
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The mourning prohibitions grounded in the assertion that ...
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2
The seventh-year release (shemitah) of debts embodies a r...
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12
The three annual pilgrimage feasts—Passover/Unleavened Br...
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11
The requirement that sacrifice animals be without defect ...
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4
The provisions for Levitical sustenance from sacrifices a...
19
12
The cities of refuge establish a redemptive legal princip...
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15
The pre-battle priestly address establishing that Israel ...
21
2
The unsolved murder ceremony in which elders wash their h...
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The command to return a neighbor's stray animal establish...
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The exclusions from the assembly—Ammonite and Moabite to ...
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The certificate of divorce establishes written procedure ...
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The limitation of flogging to forty stripes protects huma...
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The firstfruits liturgy introduces one of the Bible's gre...
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The Shechem ceremony establishes the covenant at the geog...
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The longest chapter presents the great blessings and curs...
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The Moab covenant, distinct from but supplementing the Ho...
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The theology of return after exile stands as Deuteronomy'...
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4
Moses, now 120 years old, publicly commissions Joshua as ...
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The Song of Moses (Haazinu) stands as the biblical text's...
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The Blessing of Moses on each tribe, parallel to Jacob's ...
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Moses ascends Mount Nebo and surveys the entire promised ...