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Near the Jordan River, Moses begins to remind Israel of their journey. He tells how leaders were chosen to help judge the people, how twelve spies saw the good land, and how the people refused to trust God and had to turn back into the wilderness.
Moses urges Israel to obey God's laws and not add to them or take from them. He reminds them that at Horeb they heard God's voice from the fire but saw no form, so they must never make idols. God is near, merciful, and the only God. Moses sets apart three cities of refuge.
Moses calls all Israel to hear God's covenant. He repeats the Ten Commandments that God spoke from the fire at Horeb and wrote on two stone tablets. The people were afraid and asked Moses to listen for them, and God wished they would always have hearts to obey Him.
Moses gives the great command: Hear, Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one, and love Him with all your heart, soul, and might. Parents must teach God's words to their children all through the day. When Israel is full in the good land, they must not forget the God who rescued them.
God chose Israel to be His own people, not because they were many but because He loved them and kept His promise. Moses tells them to keep apart from the gods of the nations, and to remember that God is faithful to a thousand generations. They need not fear, for God is among them.
Moses reminds Israel how God led them forty years in the wilderness, fed them with manna, and kept their clothes from wearing out, to teach them that people live by every word from God's mouth. The land ahead is good, with wheat, grapes, and wells. When they are full, they must bless God and not forget Him or think their own power made them rich.
Moses tells Israel that God is giving them the land not because they are righteous but because of the nations' wickedness and God's promise. He reminds them how they rebelled with the golden calf and how he prayed forty days and nights for them, and God listened.
God gives Moses two new stone tablets to replace the broken ones, and Moses puts them in the ark. The Levites are set apart to carry the ark and serve. Moses asks what God requires: to fear Him, walk in His ways, love Him, and serve Him with all the heart. God is great and just, and He loves the foreigner, so Israel must love the foreigner too.
Moses tells Israel to love God and keep His commands, remembering His great works in Egypt and the wilderness. The land they are going to drinks rain from heaven, and God cares for it. They must put God's words on their hearts and teach their children. Moses sets before them a blessing if they obey and a curse if they turn to other gods.
Moses tells Israel to tear down the places where the nations worshiped false gods. They must bring their offerings to the one place God will choose for His name, and rejoice there with their families, servants, and the Levites. They may eat meat at home, but must not eat the blood, and must not worship God the way the nations served their gods.
Moses warns that if a prophet, a dreamer, a family member, or a whole town tries to lead Israel to serve other gods, they must not listen. Even if a sign comes true, God is testing whether they love Him with all their heart. Israel must walk after God, obey His voice, and cling to Him.
Moses reminds Israel that they are children of God and a holy people. He lists which animals, fish, and birds are clean to eat. Each year they must set aside a tenth of their harvest and eat it before God with joy, and every third year the tithe goes to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
Every seventh year, Israel must cancel debts. They must not harden their hearts toward the poor, but open their hands and lend freely and gladly. A Hebrew servant goes free in the seventh year and must not be sent away empty, because Israel was once enslaved in Egypt and God redeemed them. Firstborn animals are given to God.
Moses describes three yearly feasts at the place God chooses: Passover with unleavened bread to remember leaving Egypt in haste, the Feast of Weeks after the grain harvest, and the Feast of Booths after the harvest of the threshing floor and wine press. All households, including servants, Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows, are to rejoice. Judges must judge fairly and never take bribes.
Offerings to God must be without defect. Any charge must be confirmed by two or three witnesses. Hard cases go to the priests and judge at God's place. If Israel ever has a king, he must be chosen by God, must not gather many horses, wives, or gold, and must write his own copy of God's law and read it all his life, so his heart is not lifted up above his brothers.
The Levites have no land, because God Himself is their inheritance, so the people share offerings and firstfruits with them. Israel must not imitate the nations' fortune tellers, sorcerers, or those who consult the dead. Instead, God promises to raise up a prophet like Moses from among them, and they must listen to him. A prophet whose word does not come true has not spoken from God.
Israel must set apart three cities of refuge in the land, so that someone who kills a neighbor by accident can flee there and live. A murderer cannot hide there. Israel must not move a neighbor's boundary stone. Two or three witnesses are needed to establish any charge, and a false witness must receive the punishment he planned for another.
When Israel goes out to battle, they must not fear great armies, because God goes with them. The priest encourages them, and officers send home men with a new house, a new vineyard, a new bride, or a fearful heart. Israel must offer peace to distant cities first, and during a siege must not cut down fruit trees.
Moses gives laws for an unsolved killing, for the rights of the firstborn son, and for other family matters. When a body was found and no one knew the killer, the elders of the nearest town washed their hands and prayed for God to forgive the people. A body hanged on a tree must be buried the same day, for one who is hanged is cursed.
Israel must return a neighbor's lost ox, sheep, donkey, or anything else, and help lift a fallen animal. When taking eggs from a nest, let the mother bird go. Build a railing on a roof so no one falls. Other laws keep things in their proper kinds, require tassels on cloaks, and protect marriage and the honor of women.
Moses gives laws about who may enter the assembly, keeping the camp clean because God walks in it, sheltering an escaped slave, refusing to charge interest to a brother, and keeping vows. A traveler may eat grapes or grain from a neighbor's field, but must not carry any away.
Moses gives laws to protect people in hard places. A new husband stays home a year to cheer his wife. Lenders must not take a millstone or enter a poor man's house for a pledge. Workers must be paid the same day. Each person is responsible for his own sin. Harvesters must leave forgotten sheaves, olives, and grapes for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
Judges must limit punishment to forty stripes so a brother is not degraded. An ox treading grain must not be muzzled. A brother should raise up a family name for a brother who died childless. Israel must use honest weights and measures, and must remember how Amalek attacked the weak and weary at the back of the line.
In the land, each family brings the first of its harvest in a basket to God's place. They tell the story of God's faithfulness: my father was a Syrian ready to perish, we were slaves in Egypt, we cried out and God heard, and He brought us to this good land. Then they rejoice with the Levite and the foreigner. Israel and God declare that they belong to each other.
Moses tells Israel that after crossing the Jordan they must set up large stones coated with plaster on Mount Ebal and write all the words of the law on them very plainly. They must build an altar of uncut stones and rejoice before God. Six tribes stand on Mount Gerizim to bless and six on Mount Ebal, and the Levites call out curses on hidden sins, with all the people answering Amen.
Moses describes the blessings that will come if Israel listens to God's voice: blessing in the city and field, on children, crops, and animals, in coming in and going out, with rain in its season. He then warns at length of curses that will come if they turn away, ending with defeat, hunger, scattering among the nations, and a return to slavery.
Moses gathers all Israel, from leaders to children, foreigners, and water carriers, to enter the covenant with God in the land of Moab. He reminds them that their clothes and sandals did not wear out in forty years. He warns that anyone who turns to idols will bring ruin, and teaches that secret things belong to God, but what He has revealed belongs to us and our children.
Moses promises that if Israel turns back to God with all their heart, even from exile, He will gather them, restore them, and circumcise their hearts to love Him. God's word is not too hard or far away; it is very near, in their mouth and heart. Moses sets before them life and death, blessing and curse, and urges them to choose life by loving God, obeying Him, and clinging to Him.
Moses, now 120 years old, tells Israel that Joshua will lead them across the Jordan, and that God Himself goes before them. He encourages Joshua to be strong and courageous. Moses writes the law and commands that it be read to everyone every seven years. God warns that Israel will turn away, so Moses writes a song to be a witness, and gives the book of the law to the Levites to keep beside the ark.
Moses speaks a song to all Israel. It praises God as the Rock whose work is perfect, tells how He found Israel in the wilderness and cared for them like an eagle over its young, and warns how Israel grew fat and forgot the Rock who saved them. God will judge, yet He will have compassion on His servants. Moses urges Israel to take these words to heart, and God tells Moses to climb Mount Nebo to see the land before he dies.
Before he dies, Moses blesses the tribes of Israel one by one. He tells how God came from Sinai and gave the law. He blesses Reuben, Judah, Levi, Benjamin, Joseph, Zebulun, Issachar, Gad, Dan, Naphtali, and Asher. He ends by praising God: there is no one like the God of Israel; the eternal God is their dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. Israel is happy, a people saved by Yahweh.
Moses climbs Mount Nebo, and God shows him the whole promised land. God says this is the land He promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but Moses will not go over. Moses dies in Moab at 120 years old, his eyes still clear and his strength not gone, and God buries him. Israel weeps thirty days. Joshua, full of the spirit of wisdom, leads Israel. No prophet has risen like Moses, whom God knew face to face.