Decalogue, part 10 (Deuteronomy 24:17-26:15)

Scripture: Deuteronomy 24:17-26:16 (especially 24:17-22)

We are moving through Moses' delivery of the Law to Israel just before they finally enter the promised land. Each section generally corresponds to one of the Ten Commandments, in order, and today we've finally come to the section related to #10:

You shall not covet. (The complete text: "You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor's wife or land, his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.")

Decalogue, part 9 (Deuteronomy 24:8-16)

Scripture: Deuteronomy 24:8-16 (especially verses 10-13)

We are moving through Moses' delivery of the Law to Israel just before they finally enter the promised land. Each section generally corresponds to one of the Ten Commandments, in order, and today we've come to the section related to #9:

You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Decalogue, part 8 (Deuteronomy 23:15-24:7)

Scripture: Deuteronomy 23:15-24:7 (especially 23:21-25)


We are moving through Moses' delivery of the Law to Israel just before they finally enter the promised land. Each section generally corresponds to one of the Ten Commandments, in order, and today we've come to the section related to #8:

You shall not steal.

Decalogue, part 7 (Deuteronomy 22:1-23:14)

Scripture: Deuteronomy 22:1-23:14 (especially 23:3-5)

We are moving through Moses' delivery of the Law to Israel just before they finally enter the promised land. Each section generally corresponds to one of the Ten Commandments, in order, and today we've come to the section related to #7:

You shall not commit adultery.

Decalogue, part 6 (Deuteronomy 19-21)

Scripture: Deuteronomy 19-21 (especially 19:1-13)

We are moving through Moses' delivery of the Law to Israel just before they finally enter the promised land. Each section generally corresponds to one of the Ten Commandments, in order, and today we've come to the section related to #6:

You shall not murder.

Decalogue, part 5 (Deuteronomy 16:18-18:22)

Scripture: Deuteronomy 16:18-18:22 (especially 16:18-20 and 17:14-20)

We are moving through Moses' delivery of the Law to Israel just before they finally enter the promised land. Each section generally corresponds to one of the Ten Commandments, in order, and today we've come to the section related to #5:

Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you...

Decalogue, part 4 (Deuteronomy 14:22-16:17)

Scripture: Deuteronomy 14:22-16:17 (especially Deut. 16:1-8)

We are moving through Moses' delivery of the Law to Israel just before they finally enter the promised land. Each section generally corresponds to one of the Ten Commandments, in order, and today we've come to the section related to #4:

Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the Lord your God has commanded you.

Decalogue, part 3 (Deuteronomy 13:1-14:21)

Scripture: Deuteronomy 13:1-14:21 (especially Deut. 13:1-5)

We are moving through Moses' delivery of the Law to Israel just before they finally enter the promised land. Each section generally corresponds to one of the Ten Commandments, in order, and today we've come to the section related to #3:

You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.

Decalogue, part 2 (Deuteronomy 12)

Scripture: Deuteronomy 12 (especially verses 1-7)

If you missed the previous post, you missed the explanation of what we're doing in the middle of Deuteronomy. But it's pretty simple: in the heart of the book, as Moses gives Isreal the Law again to prepare them for the promised land, he gives commands that develop and clarify each of the Ten Commandments, in order. So we'll read through a section at a time, a Commandment at a time. Today, the second:

You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or in the earth beneath or in the waters below.

Decalogue, part 1 (Deuteronomy 6-11)

Scripture: Deuteronomy 11 (especially verses 13-17, and also chapters 6-10)

If you've been reading through Deuteronomy with me, you'll notice something's different. As the title suggests, we're changing up the structure of working through the book. This simply reflects the change in the text itself; we're transitioning from Moses' introductory exhortations to his recapitulation of God's law. 

One fascinating observation, made by Walton and Hill in their textbook Old Testament Today, is that Moses' entire presentation, covering chapters 6 to 26, is a detailed exposition of the Ten Commandments (also called the Decalogue)! That all of the law really serves to further these ten core instructions.

Deut. 5-- That it may be well with you

Scripture: Deuteronomy 5 (especially verses 28-33)

Moses is still transitioning from retelling Israel's history in the wilderness to reissuing God's Law to them to prepare them to enter the promised land. In the first half of the chapter, he goes over "the Ten Commandments," and in the second he recounts their initial response to the Ten and God's response to their response. (There are a lot of responses happening. If I didn't sense that my readership for this blog is of an older generation, I'd make a joke here about response-ception.)