Deuteronomy

Outlined Bible

Introduction: The book of Deuteronomy records for us the three farewell addresses given by Moses at the end of his career. The addresses were sequential the first one focuses on the past, the second deals with the present, and the third concerns the future.

Name - Deuteronomy means second deuter law nomos.

The name comes to us through the Septuagint.
The title was chosen because Deuteronomy does give a restatement of the law found earlier in the

Pentateuch.

Author - Moses is the human agent through whom God's Spirit would provide inspiration and revelation.

The book makes that claim. (Deuteronomy 31:9-26)
Jesus attributed the work to Moses. (cf. Matthew 19:7; Mark 7:10; Luke 10:28)
The account of Moses' death (Deuteronomy 34:1-12) was surely added by another author -- likely

Joshua.

Purpose - The main purpose of the book is to remind Israel of their special relationship with God.

Moses reminded the people that with their privileged position as a covenant people, came a responsibility to serve God faithfully.
In his three messages recorded in Deuteronomy, Moses pled with the people to obey the commandments.
The law is given a second time because the generation that originally received the commandments on

Sinai had died.

Background of the book
Deuteronomy was written in Moses' 120th year (cf. 34:7), just as the 40 years of wandering in the desert was concluding, and Israel is about to enter Canaan.
A date of 1405-1410 BC is likely.
It is written while the Israelites are at their last encampment on the plains of Moab.
The Main Message of the book: The summarized message of the book of Deuteronomy is love, trust and obey.
“And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the LORD's commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?” (Deuteronomy 10:12-13)
These concepts of love and obedience blend together to form the response God wants from His people in any generation. "If you love me, you will obey what I command.” John 14:15
Israel's prosperous future in Canaan is contingent on their obedience. (Deuteronomy 6:3; 8:17-18; 11:8)
Outline of the book
Moses Reviews Israel's Past (Deuteronomy 1-4)
He reminded the people of the sin that led to the 40 years of wilderness wandering. (1:5-46)
He recounts the major events of that 40-year wandering. (2:1-3:29)
Moses exhorts them to obey the Lord. (4:1-14)
He tells them to abstain from idols. (4:15-31)
He ends this address by setting aside three "cities of refuge" east of the Jordan. (4:41-43)
Moses' 2nd Address - A Review of the Law for the New Generation (Deuteronomy 5-26):
Moses recites the Decalogue (5:1-21) and how he received it originally on Mt. Sinai. (5:22-33)
He stresses teaching the commands to the children and subsequent generations. (6:1-25)
He gave instructions about conquering and inhabiting the new land. (7:1-26)
Moses pleads for the Israelites to love, honor, and obey the

Lord. (8-11)

Instructions for proper worship are given. (12-14)
Instructions are given about:
Dietary restrictions. (14:1-21)
Tithes. (14:22-29)
Canceling debts. (15:1-11)
Freeing servants. (15:12-18)
Animals for sacrifice. (15:19-23)
Holy days. (16:1-17)
Judges. (16:18-20)
Abstaining from idolatry. (16:21-17:7)
Law courts. (17:8-13)
Provisions for a king. (17:14-20)
Revenue for priests and Levites. (18:1-8)
Penalties for detestable practices. (18:9-22)
Cities of refuge. (19:1-14)
Witnesses. (19:15-21)
Going to war. (20)
Various personal laws and penalties. (21-25)
Firstfruits and tithes. (26:1-15)
Moses' 3rd Address - Living in the Promised Land. (27-30):
When they go into the land, Moses wants them to erect an altar on Mt. Ebal, and the Levites will give recitations there. (27)
Blessings are promised for obedience. (28:1-14)
Curses will accompany disobedience. (28:16-68)
The terms of the covenant and the choice of life or death. (29:1-30:20)
The Final Ministry of Moses. (Deuteronomy 31-34)
Joshua is appointed to succeed Moses. (31:1-8)
Moses predicts Israel's rebellion. (31:14-29)
Moses offers a prophetic song to the people. (31:30-32:43)
God summons Moses to Mt. Nebo. (32:48-52)
Before his death, Moses blesses the tribes of Israel. (33:1-29)
The death of Moses is recorded. (34)
Key Themes of the book
Love and Obedience.
Already identified as the main message(s) of the book, it is vitally important for us to see how the former fosters the latter.
“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. (6:4-6)
Unlike some have suggested, the Old Testament is not a sterile, loveless code, but a covenant based on God's love and expecting it in return.
In turn, the New Testament - recognized as a covenant of grace and love - expects and commands obedience. (James 1:22; Matthew 7:21)
The Spiritual Training of Our Children.
Deuteronomy 6 stresses the spiritual training of the Hebrew children.
Deuteronomy 6:6-7 is a key passage. “Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.”
The stories of God's deliverance were to be passed down. (6:20-25)
A constant recognition of God's provisions should pervade our homes. (6:10-12)
Following the example of Deuteronomy 6, parents must:
Talk freely and frequently in our homes about spiritual things.
Teach and model God's commands and principles.
Make our homes centers of worship.
Israel as God's "chosen people" (Deuteronomy 7:6ff):
Deuteronomy is where the Israelites are first identified as a chosen people. (7:6)
They were not chosen because of size, greatness, or any merit of their own. (7:7)
They were chosen because of:
God's love. (7:8)
God's faithfulness to His covenant made to Abraham. (7:8)
Israel seemed not to understand that their selection would produce responsibility (7:11-12) rather than arrogance.
Fulfilling their purpose as set forth in the covenant to Abraham (to bring forth the Messiah); Israel is no longer a chosen people. The church is God's "chosen people" today – those called to righteousness through the Son of God, Christ. (cf. Romans 2:28-29; Galatians 3:29; Ephesians 1:4)
The death of Moses (Deuteronomy 34)
Typically viewed with sadness, the death and burial of Moses were two of the most incredible scenes in all history.
God personally showed Moses all of the Promised Land that he would never enter.
Then God took him home to the real Promised Land. Uniquely, God took the body of Moses and buried it.
No one knows the site of the burial.
Jude offers an intriguing twist to the burial of Moses. “But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous accusation against him, but said, ‘The Lord rebuke you!’” (Jude v. 9)

DEUTERONOMY Summarized Bible

The fifth book of the Pentateuch is Deuteronomy, which signifies “The Law Repeated” or a Second Declaration of the Law. (From Dickson Bible) This presentation will generally identify without detail what has been summarized in Numbers.

“These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel in the desert east of the Jordan. ‘The Lord our God said to us at Horeb, You have stayed long enough at this mountain. Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the Euphrates.’” (Deut. 1:1; 6-7)

See, I have given you this land.

“Go in and take possession of the land that the Lord swore he would give to your fathers — to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — and to their descendants after them.” (Deut. 1:8)
“Choose some wise, understanding and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will set them over you.” (Deut. 1:13)
“Let us send men ahead to spy out the land for us and bring back a report about the route we are to take and the towns we will come to.” (Deut. 1:22)
It is a good land that the Lord our God is giving us. But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God. You grumbled in your tents. (Deut. 1:25-27)
“When the Lord heard what you said, he was angry and solemnly swore: "Not a man of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your forefathers.” (Deut. 1:34-35)
“We turned back and set out toward the desert along the route to the Red Sea, as the Lord had directed

For a long time, we made our way around the hill country of Seir.” (Deut. 2:1)

“Thirty-eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp.” (Deut. 2:14)
“Now when the last of these fighting men among the people had died, the Lord said to me, ‘Today you are to pass by the region of Moab at Ar.’” (Deut. 2:16-18)
“Set out now and cross the Arnon Gorge. See, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his country.” (Deut. 2:24)
“Next, we turned and went up along the road toward Bashan, … So, the Lord our God also gave into our hands Og king of Bashan and all his army.” (Deut. 3:1, 3)
“Hear now, O Israel, the decrees and laws I am about to teach you. Follow them so that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you. Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you.” (Deut. 4:1-2)

“See I have taught you decrees and laws as the Lord my God commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are entering to take possession of it. Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations, who will hear about all these decrees and say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the Lord our God is near us whenever we pray to him? And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws as this body of laws I am setting before you today?’” (Deut. 4:5-8)

“Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them. Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, when he said to me, "Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children." You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain while it blazed with fire to the very heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness. Then the Lord spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of words but saw no form; there was only a voice. He declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he commanded you to follow and then wrote them on two stone tablets. And the Lord directed me at that time to teach you the decrees and laws you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.” (Deut. 4:9-14)

“… Therefore, watch yourselves very carefully, so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman, or like any animal on earth or any bird that flies in the air, or like any creature that moves along the ground or any fish in the waters below. And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars — all the heavenly array — do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the Lord your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven. But as for you, the Lord took you and brought you out of the iron-smelting furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of his inheritance, as you now are.” (Deut. 4:15-20)

“Be careful not to forget the covenant of the Lord your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the Lord your God has forbidden. For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.” (Deut. 4:23-24)

“… If you then become corrupt and make any kind of idol, doing evil in the eyes of the Lord your God and provoking him to anger, I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live there long but will certainly be destroyed. The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive.” (Deut. 4:25-27)

“But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul. When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the Lord your God and obey him. For the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your forefathers, which he confirmed to them by oath.” (Deut. 4:29-31)

Moses repeats the Ten Commandments concluding with – “be careful to do what the Lord your God has commanded you; do not turn aside to the right or to the left. Walk in all the way that the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.” (Deut. 5:32-33)

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.” … “You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.” (Deut. 6:4-9; 16)

“When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations — the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you — and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, for they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods, and the Lord's anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you.” (Deut. 7:1-4)

“If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the Lord your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your forefathers. He will love you and bless you.” … “Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today. … Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way

in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.” (Deut. 7:12-13; 8:2-5)

“When you build fine houses and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God.” … “If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed.” (Deut. 8:12-14; 19)

“And now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the Lord's commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good? To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it. Yet the Lord set his affection on your forefathers and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations, as it is today. Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do not be stiff-necked any longer. For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the alien, giving him food and clothing. And you are to love those who are aliens, for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. Fear the Lord your God and serve him. Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name.” (Deut. 10:12-21)

“These are the decrees and laws you must be careful to follow in the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess — as long as you live in the land. Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains and on the hills and under every spreading tree where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods. Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places. You must not worship the Lord your God in their way. But you are to seek the place the Lord your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name there for his dwelling. To that place you must go; there bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, what you have vowed to give.” (Deut. 12:1-6)

“You are not to do as we do here today, everyone as he sees fit, since you have not yet reached the resting place and the inheritance the Lord your God is giving you.” … “Be careful not to sacrifice your burnt offerings anywhere you please. Offer them only at the place the Lord will choose in one of your tribes, and there observe everything I command you.” … “Be careful not to neglect the Levites as long as you live in your land.” (Deut. 12:8-9, 13-14, 19)

“… You may eat as much of it as you want” … “but be sure you do not eat the blood because blood is the life, pour it out on the ground like water.” (Deut. 12:20, 23-24)

“The Lord your God will cut off before you the nations you are about to invade and dispossess. But when you have driven them out and settled in their land, and after they have been destroyed before you, be careful not to be ensnared by inquiring about their gods, saying, ‘How do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same.’ You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.” (Deut. 12:29-31)

“At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.” (Deut. 15:1)

“If there is a poor man among your brothers in any of the towns of the land that the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward your poor brother. Rather be openhanded and freely lend him whatever he needs. Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought: "The seventh year, the year for canceling debts, is near," so that you do not show ill will toward your needy brother and give him nothing. He may then appeal to the Lord against you, and you will be found guilty of sin. Give generously to him and do so without a grudging heart; then because of this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you put your hand to. There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore, I command you to be openhanded toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land.” (Deut. 15:7-11)

Feast to be Observed

Celebrate the Passover of the Lord your God, because in the month of Abib he brought you out of Egypt by night. (Deut. 16:1-2)
Celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God by giving a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings the Lord your God has given you. (Deut. 16:10)
Celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress. (Deut. 16:13)
Feast of Unleavened Bread
Feast of Weeks
Feast of Tabernacles. No man should appear before the Lord empty-handed. (Deut. 16:16)

“Do not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep that has any defect or flaw in it, for that would be detestable to him.” (Deut. 17:1)

“When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord, and because of these detestable practices the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you. You must be blameless before the Lord your God.” (Deut. 18:9-13)

“The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him.” (Deut. 18:15)

“The Lord said to me: ‘What they say is good. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him. If anyone does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will call him to account. But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded him to say, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, must be put to death.’ You may say to yourselves, ‘How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord?’ If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.” (Deut. 18:17-22)

“If a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him, assaults and kills him. … You must purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood.” (Deut. 19:11-13)

“Do not move your neighbor's boundary stone.” (Deut. 19:14)

“One witness is not enough to convict a man accused of any crime or offense.” (Deut. 19:15)

“If a man guilty of a capital offense is put to death and his body is hung on a tree, you must not leave his body on the tree overnight. Be sure to bury him that same day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God's curse.” (Deut. 21:22-23) Comment: Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.” (Gal 3:13)

“If you see your brother's ox or sheep straying, do not ignore it but be sure to take it back to him.” (Deut. 22:1)

“A woman must not wear men's clothing, nor a man wear women's clothing, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this.” (Deut. 22:5)

“If a man is found sleeping with another man's wife, both the man who slept (sexual relations) with her and the woman must die.” (Deut. 22:22

“A man is not to marry his father's wife; he must not dishonor his father's bed.” (Deut. 22:30) Comment: It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality (Greek porneia – fornication) among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife.” (1 Cor 5:1-2)

“If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, and if after she leaves his house she becomes the wife of another man, and her second husband dislikes her and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, or if he dies, then her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled.” (Deut. 24:1-4)

Comment: Sending away a wife with a certificate of divorcement (Hebrew word kriythuwth) permits re- marriage without being considered an adulteress. Without a certificate of divorcement (Hebrew word Shalach) anyone who marries another is committing fornication as she is still married thereby committing adultery by breaking the marriage covenant.

“Today the Lord your God is commanding you to obey these laws and rules. You must faithfully obey them with all your heart and with all your soul. Today you have declared that the Lord is your God and that you will follow his directions, obey his laws, commands, and rules, and listen to him. Today the Lord has declared that you are his people, his own special possession, as he told you. But you must be sure to obey his commands. Then he will place you high above all the other nations he has made. He will give you praise, fame, and honor, and you will be a people holy to the Lord your God, as he promised.” (Deut. 26:16-19)

“Then Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, ‘Be quiet and listen, Israel. Today you have become the people of the Lord your God. Obey the Lord your God and follow his commands and laws which I'm giving you today.’” (Deut. 27:9-10)

“When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph and Benjamin. And these tribes shall stand on Mount Ebal to pronounce curses: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali. The Levites shall recite to all the people of Israel in a loud voice: Then all the people shall say!

Cursed is the man who carves an image or casts an idol — a thing detestable to the Lord, the work of the craftsman's hands — and sets it up in secret. (15)
Cursed is the man who dishonors his father or his mother. (16)
Cursed is the man who moves his neighbor's boundary stone. (1)7
Cursed is the man who leads the blind astray on the road. (18)
Cursed is the man who withholds justice from the alien, the fatherless or the widow. (19)
Cursed is the man who sleeps with his father's wife, for he dishonors his father's bed. (20)
Cursed is the man who has sexual relations with any animal. (21)
Cursed is the man who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother. Recall Amnon, David’s son, raped Tamar his half-sister. (2 Samuel 13:12) (22)
Cursed is the man who sleeps with his mother-in-law. (23)
Cursed is the man who kills his neighbor secretly. (24)
Cursed is the man who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person. (25)
Cursed is the man who does not uphold the words of this law by carrying them out. (26)

“If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands, I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God.” (Deut. 27:12-28:2)

“However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees, I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country. Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed. The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks. You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out. The Lord will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him.” (Deut. 28:15-20)

“If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name — the Lord your God … Then the Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other.” (Deut. 28:58, 64)

“When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come upon you and you take them to heart wherever the Lord your God disperses you among the nations, and when you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything, I command you today, then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you. Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back. He will bring you to the land that belonged to your fathers, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers.” (Deut. 30:1-5)

“If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name — the Lord your God. … Then the Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other.” (Deut. 28:58, 64)

“See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess. But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess. This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you, life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” (Deut. 30:15-20)

“Then Moses went out and spoke these words to all Israel: ‘I am now a hundred and twenty years old and I am no longer able to lead you. The Lord has said to me, you shall not cross the Jordan.' The Lord your God himself will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you will take possession of their land. Joshua also will cross over ahead of you, as the Lord said.” (Deut. 31:1-3)

“Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, "Be strong and courageous, for you must go with this people into the land that the Lord swore to their forefathers to give them, and you must divide it among them as their inheritance. The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.” (Deut. 31:7-8)

“The Lord said to Moses, ‘Now the day of your death is near. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the Tent of Meeting, where I will commission him.’ So, Moses and Joshua came and presented themselves at the Tent of Meeting. Then the Lord appeared at the Tent in a pillar of cloud, and the cloud stood over the entrance to the Tent. And the Lord said to Moses: ‘You are going to rest with your fathers.’” (Deut. 31:14- 16)

“The Lord gave this command to Joshua son of Nun: ‘Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the Israelites into the land I promised them on oath, and I myself will be with you.’” (Deut. 31:23)

“After Moses finished writing in a book the words of this law from beginning to end, he gave this command to the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord: ‘Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God. There it will remain as a witness against you.’” (Deut. 31:24-27)

“After Moses finished writing in a book the words of this law from beginning to end, he gave this command to the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord: "Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God. There it will remain as a witness against you.” (Deut. 31:24-27)

“On that same day the Lord told Moses, ‘Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo in Moab, across from Jericho, and view Canaan, the land I am giving the Israelites as their own possession. There on the mountain that you have climbed you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people. This is because both of you broke faith with me in the presence of the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the Desert of Zin and because you did not uphold my holiness among the Israelites. Therefore, you will see the land only from a distance; you will not enter the land I am giving to the people of Israel.’” (Deut. 32:48-52)

“Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There the Lord showed him the whole land — from Gilead to Dan, all of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea, the Negev and the whole region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar. Then the Lord said to him, "This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, 'I will give it to your descendants.' I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it." And Moses the servant of the Lord died there in Moab, as the Lord had said. He buried him in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is.” (Deut. 34:1-7)

“Since then, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, who did all those miraculous signs and wonders the Lord sent him to do in Egypt — to Pharaoh and to all his officials and to his whole land. For no one has ever shown the mighty power or performed the awesome deeds that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.” (Deut. 34:10-12) Comment: Jesus of Nazareth did all kinds of sign, miracles and wonders, including raising one dead for four days. The leaders of the Jews rejected this miracle, thus hardening their heart. The leaders of the Jews just like Pharaoh, the leader of Egypt, rejected these miracles that prove they were messengers of God.

Text and illustrations reproduced from the study “Deuteronomy”. The original PDF is the reference copy.