Tablets Like the First Ones 1 At that time the Lord said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a wooden ark. 2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Then you are… Read More »

Not Because of Israel’s Righteousness 9 Hear, Israel: You are now about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities that have walls up to the sky. 2 The people are strong and tall—Anakites! You know about them and have heard it said: “Who can stand up… Read More »

Do Not Forget the Lord 1 Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors. This statement/command is found throughout the written word of God, it was commanded over and over so… Read More »

Driving Out the Nations Moses continues to encourage, remind, and warn the people of Israel of all the things God taught them on their journey to the promised land. He is preparing them for his absence, knowing that from this time on they will no longer have him as their advocate to God. He has… Read More »

Love the Lord Your God 6 These are the commands, decrees and laws the Lord your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, 2 so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live… Read More »

  The Ten Commandments 1 Moses summoned all Israel and said: Hear, Israel, the decrees and laws I declare in your hearing today. Learn them and be sure to follow them. 2 The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. 3 It was not with our ancestors that the Lord made this covenant, but with… Read More »

Obedience Commanded In this chapter we have an earnest plea to the people to be obedient. This comes from Moses who knows first hand how important obedience is to God. He is facing their greatest blessing but can only see it from afar due to his own disobedience. Just as a parent tries to keep… Read More »

Defeat of Og King of Bashan 3 Next we turned and went up along the road toward Bashan, and Og king of Bashan with his whole army marched out to meet us in battle at Edrei. 2 The Lord said to me, “Do not be afraid of him, for I have delivered him into your hands, along… Read More »

Wanderings in the Wilderness 1 Then we turned back and set out toward the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea, as the Lord had directed me. For a long time we made our way around the hill country of Seir. 2 Then the Lord said to me, 3 “You have made your way around this hill… Read More »

The Command to Leave Horeb 1 These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan—that is, in the Arabah—opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab. 2 (It takes eleven days to go from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by the Mount Seir road.) 3 In the fortieth year, on… Read More »