This is the body of instruction that Moses presented to the Israelites.
Parallel translations
- WEB This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
- KJV And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
- BSB This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites.
- NKJV Now this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
- NASB Now this is the Law which Moses set before the sons of Israel;
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Quick answer
This verse introduces the law Moses set before Israel. It marks the transition into the second address of Deuteronomy.
Overview
This is a heading announcing the law, or instruction, that Moses placed before the people. It opens the central section of the book where the covenant stipulations are restated. The law given through Moses ultimately points beyond itself to Christ, its goal and fulfillment (Romans 10:4).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Deut 27:26‘Cursed is he who doesn’t uphold the words of this law by doing them.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’”
- Lev 27:34These are the commandments which Yahweh commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.
- Deut 17:18–19It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites.
- Deut 1:5Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,
- John 1:17For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
- Mal 4:4“Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.
- Deut 27:3You shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have passed over; that you may go in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
- Deut 27:8You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly.”
- Deut 33:4Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
- Num 36:13These are the commandments and the ordinances which Yahweh commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
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Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).
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