Category: Deuteronomy

This chapter has several commandment recaps including tithing and and clean/unclean food, though we’re going to talk about one that is often misunderstood or overlooked. “You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. For you are a people holy…

“If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ you shall not listen…

“Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it.” (v32) There are a few places in scripture we are warned to follow God’s commands/words without adding or removing anything: “You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from…

“And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, he will give the rain for your land in its season… Take care lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and…

“And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, 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…

“Hear, Israel: You are now about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you… But be assured today that the Lord your God is the one who goes across ahead of you like a devouring fire. He will destroy them… After the Lord your God has driven them…

“Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and…

“When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations… 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…

“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…

In this chapter Moses reads the Ten Commandments to the people as a reminder. We are also reminded of God’s heart behind the commandments. “You shall be careful therefore to do as the Lord your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. You shall walk…