Deut 6, part 2-- 'What is the meaning of these laws?'

Scripture: Deuteronomy 6 (especially verses 20-25)

Having just delivered what would become the most important text in Judeo-Christianity, Moses answers a very interesting hypothetical question starting in verse 20:

In the future your children will ask you, ‘What is the meaning of these laws, decrees, and regulations that the Lord our God has commanded us to obey?’

Then you must tell them...

Deut. 6, part 1-- Hear, O Israel

Scripture: Deuteronomy 6:1-9 (especially verses 4-9)

We have come to perhaps the most important passage in the entire Old Testament. The passage, found in verses 4-9 of Deuteronomy 6, has come to be known by its first word in the Hebrew text-- 'The Shema.'

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.)