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Deuteronomy

Old Testament · translated from the Hebrew

Moses’ last speeches to Israel before they enter the land: he recalls what YHWH did, repeats and explains the law, and calls the people to love YHWH with all their heart and to choose life.

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
  13. 13
  14. 14
  15. 15
  16. 16
  17. 17
  18. 18
  19. 19
  20. 20
  21. 21
  22. 22
  23. 23
  24. 24
  25. 25
  26. 26
  27. 27
  28. 28
  29. 29
  30. 30
  31. 31
  32. 32
  33. 33
  34. 34

How it is laid out

  1. Moses recalls the journeychapters 1–4
  2. The law explainedchapters 5–26
  3. Blessing, curse and renewal of the covenantchapters 27–30
  4. Farewell and death of Moseschapters 31–34

Key verses

Who wrote it

The book says that Moses spoke these words and wrote this instruction (1:1; 31:9, 24). Jewish and Christian tradition attributes the book to him; the account of his death (chapter 34) was written by another hand (Babylonian Talmud, Bava Batra 15a: Joshua). Authorship is debated.

When it was written

Debated. The speeches are set in the fortieth year after the exodus from Egypt (1:3), around the 15th or 13th century BC.

For whom, and in what situation

All Israel, in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan (1:1–5): the new generation that was about to enter the land without Moses.

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