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• Deuteronomy 23Bible

  Deuteronomy 23 is a chapter of law that sets out who may enter the congregation of the LORD and gives regulations on keeping the camp clean in time of war, protecting runaway servants, interest, vows, and a neighbor's field.

• Deuteronomy 25Bible

  Deuteronomy 25 is a chapter of law containing regulations on judicial rulings and the limit on flogging, the ox treading out grain, levirate marriage, and honest weights. It closes with the command to remember what Amalek did.

• Deuteronomy 28Bible

  Deuteronomy 28 is the chapter in which Moses proclaims to Israel the blessings that will follow obedience to the law (vv. 1–14) and the curses that will follow disobedience (vv. 15–68). The section on curses is far longer and foretells, in turn, disease, defeat in battle, siege, captivity, and dispersion.

• Deuteronomy 26Bible

  Deuteronomy 26 concludes the legal provisions of Deuteronomy with a confession of faith recited when offering the firstfruits of the land, a prayer offered after distributing the third-year tithe, and a covenant affirmation in which the LORD and Israel acknowledge each other.

• Deuteronomy 29Bible

  Deuteronomy 29 is the chapter in which Moses establishes the covenant anew with all the people of Israel in the land of Moab. It warns that if they forsake the covenant and serve other gods, the land will be laid waste and the people driven out into another land.

• Deuteronomy 27Bible

  Deuteronomy 27 records Moses' instructions that, after entering Canaan, Israel is to set up on Mount Ebal stones inscribed with the law, together with an altar. It then directs six tribes to stand on Mount Gerizim and six on Mount Ebal, and commands the people to answer "Amen" to each of twelve curses proclaimed by the Levites.

• Deuteronomy 32Bible

  Deuteronomy 32 records the song, known as the "Song of Moses," that Moses delivered before the assembly of Israel. God then tells Moses to climb Mount Nebo and view Canaan, but declares that he will not enter the land and will die there.

• Deuteronomy 30Bible

  Deuteronomy 30 contains the promise that if scattered Israel returns to the LORD, he will gather and restore them, together with Moses' exhortation that, because the commandment is near, the people should choose life rather than death.

• Deuteronomy 33Bible

  Deuteronomy 33 is a poem in which Moses blesses the tribes of Israel one by one before his death. It opens with the appearing of the LORD, moves through blessings on the individual tribes, and closes with praise to the God who saved Israel.

• Deuteronomy 31Bible

  Deuteronomy 31 is the chapter in which Moses, at 120 years of age, installs and encourages Joshua as his successor, writes down the law and commands that it be read aloud every seven years, and teaches a song that will bear witness against the people's future unfaithfulness.

• Deuteronomy 34Bible

  Deuteronomy 34 is the final chapter of Deuteronomy. In it Moses views the Promised Land from Mount Nebo, dies in the land of Moab at the age of 120, and is succeeded by Joshua.

• Song of MosesBible

  The Song of Moses refers to two Old Testament poems attributed to Moses: the hymn of deliverance sung after the crossing of the Red Sea (Exodus 15) and the song bearing witness to the covenant that he delivered before his death (Deuteronomy 32).

• Seven Nations of CanaanBible

  The seven nations of Canaan is a collective term for the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, the peoples who lived in the land of Canaan before Israel entered it. The expression derives from Deuteronomy 7:1.

• MoseraBible

  Mosera is a place where Israel stopped during its journey through the wilderness after the Exodus. Deuteronomy 10:6 names it as the place where Aaron died and was buried. It is generally identified with Moseroth in Numbers 33.

• Year of ReleaseBible

  The year of release is an institution prescribed in Deuteronomy 15 under which, every seventh year, Israelites were to release debts owed to them by fellow Israelites.

• Ruler of TensBible

  A ruler of tens was a leader placed over a unit of ten Israelites who governed them and judged minor disputes. The office appears in Exodus 18 and Deuteronomy 1.

• Ten CommandmentsWorship & Rites

  The Ten Commandments are the ten commands recorded in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 of the Old Testament, which God is said to have given to Israel at Mount Sinai. In Korean Protestant churches they are used, together with the Apostles' Creed and the Lord's Prayer, as core content for basic instruction in the faith.

• Mount GerizimBible

  Mount Gerizim is a mountain south of Shechem. Deuteronomy and Joshua present it as the "mountain of blessing," from which the blessing was proclaimed. It later became the center of Samaritan worship.

• Dietary LawsBible

  The dietary laws are the regulations of the Old Testament law that distinguished the clean foods the people of Israel were permitted to eat from the unclean foods they were forbidden to eat. They appear chiefly in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14.

• AaronPeople

  Aaron, a Levite who appears in the Old Testament books from Exodus through Deuteronomy, was the elder brother of Moses and the first high priest of Israel. His descendants inherited Israel's priesthood.