Deuteronomy 10-- The Lord is his inheritance

Scripture: Deuteronomy 10:1-9 (especially verses 6-9)

Returning from our reflection on God's command to destroy, let's recap where we are in Deuteronomy: 

Moses is giving his final discourse to Israel before he dies and they enter the promised land. In chapters 1-3, Moses recounted Israel's recent history in the wilderness. Now, in chapters 4-11, he gives warnings and exhortations for them once they've entered the land. Next time we'll look at the second half of chapter ten and at chapter 11, and we'll see some beautiful summaries of all these final encouragements. 

But first, an interesting aside on the tribe of Levi...