- 1 Deuteronomy 1 Α′ The Greek title ΔΕΥΤΕΡΟΝΟΜΙΟΝ ('second law') derives from the LXX rendering of 17:18 (τὸ δευτερονόμιον τοῦτο, for Hebrew מִשְׁנֵה הַתּוֹרָה, 'a copy of this law'); the translator's mistaking of 'copy' for 'second' gave the book its Greek and Latin name. PDF
- 2 Deuteronomy 2 Β′ Deuteronomy 2 continues Moses' first-person retrospect of the wilderness years (begun at 1:6): the long circuit of Mount Seir (vv. 1–8), the divine prohibitions against provoking Esau/Edom (vv. PDF
- 3 Deuteronomy 3 Γ′ Chapter 3 continues Moses' first retrospective discourse: the conquest of the Transjordan. It narrates the defeat of Og king of Bashan, the last survivor of the Rephaim/giants (κατελείφθη ἀπὸ τῶν Ραφαϊν, v. PDF
- 4 Deuteronomy 4 Δ′ Deuteronomy 4 is the climactic peroration of Moses' first address (1:6–4:40), followed by a brief notice of the three Transjordan cities of refuge (vv. PDF
- 5 Deuteronomy 5 Ε′ Deuteronomy 5 is the great restatement of the Decalogue at Horeb, set within Moses' first address in the plains of Moab. Moses summons all Israel (ἄκουε Ισραηλ, v. PDF
- 6 Deuteronomy 6 Ϛ′ Deuteronomy 6 is one of the theological summits of the Pentateuch: it contains the Shema (vv. 4–5), Israel's foundational confession of YHWH's oneness and the command to love him with the whole of one's being. PDF
- 7 Deuteronomy 7 Ζ′ Deuteronomy 7 is one of the great election-chapters of the Torah, structured as a covenant homily: the command of ḥērem against the seven Canaanite nations (vv. PDF
- 8 Deuteronomy 8 Η′ Deuteronomy 8 is the great wilderness-retrospect of Moses' second discourse, a hortatory chapter built on the imperatives 'keep' (φυλάξεσθε, v. 1), 'remember' (μνησθήσῃ, v. PDF
- 9 Deuteronomy 9 Θ′ Deuteronomy 9 is one of the great grace-not-merit chapters of the Pentateuch. PDF
- 10 Deuteronomy 10 Ι′ Deuteronomy 10 is a Mosaic first-person retrospect that gives way to a sustained second-person paraenesis. It opens with the second pair of stone tablets and the ark of acacia wood (ἐκ ξύλων ἀσήπτων, v. PDF
- 11 Deuteronomy 11 ΙΑ′ Deuteronomy 11 is the rhetorical climax of Moses' first great parenesis (chs. 5–11): an extended exhortation to love (ἀγαπήσεις, v. PDF
- 12 Deuteronomy 12 ΙΒ′ Deuteronomy 12 opens the great legal core of Deuteronomy (chs. 12–26) and is the foundational charter of Israelite worship: the law of the central sanctuary. PDF
- 13 Deuteronomy 13 ΙΓ′ A versification note is essential: the Rahlfs LXX (following the Hebrew/Masoretic numbering) counts this chapter as nineteen verses, 13:1–19, where 13:1 (πᾶν ῥῆμα… οὐ προσθήσεις… οὐδὲ ἀφελεῖς) is the 'neither add nor subtract' frame; many English versions (KJV, RSV, NRSV, ESV) attach that frame to the previous chapter as 12:32 and therefore number the present material 13:1–18. PDF
- 14 Deuteronomy 14 ΙΔ′ Deuteronomy 14 is a tightly structured chapter of covenant law built on a single theological axiom — Israel's status as YHWH's holy and chosen people — from which three bodies of practice are derived. PDF
- 15 Deuteronomy 15 ΙΕ′ Deuteronomy 15 is one of the great Mosaic statutes of social mercy, structured in three movements bound by a single key term: ἄφεσις, 'release' (vv. 1–11), the manumission of the Hebrew slave (vv. PDF
- 16 Deuteronomy 16 ΙϚ′ Deuteronomy 16 sets out the festal calendar of Israel from the controlling angle of the central sanctuary — 'the place that the LORD your God shall choose' (ὁ τόπος ὃν ἐὰν ἐκλέξηται κύριος) — and then turns to the appointment of judges. PDF
- 17 Deuteronomy 17 ΙΖ′ Deuteronomy 17 in the LXX is a chapter of cultic and constitutional law, moving in four movements: the prohibition of blemished sacrifice (v. 1); the trial and stoning of the apostate who worships the host of heaven (vv. PDF
- 18 Deuteronomy 18 ΙΗ′ The chapter falls into four movements. (1) The portion of the Levitical priests (vv. PDF
- 19 Deuteronomy 19 ΙΘ′ Deuteronomy 19 is a tightly organized unit of casuistic and apodictic law in three movements: the law of the cities of refuge (vv. 1–13), a single prohibition guarding the boundary-marker (v. PDF
- 20 Deuteronomy 20 Κ′ Deuteronomy 20 is the Torah's principal 'law of war' (a unified torat ha-milḥamah), structured in four movements: the pre-battle exhortation against fear, grounded in the Exodus deliverance (vv. PDF
- 21 Deuteronomy 21 ΚΑ′ Deuteronomy 21 is a chapter of discrete casuistic laws, each governing the handling of blood, death, and the boundaries of the household and the land. PDF
- 22 Deuteronomy 22 ΚΒ′ Deuteronomy 22 is a miscellany of covenant case-law binding the everyday ordering of property, dress, agriculture, and sexuality to the holiness of the covenant people. PDF
- 23 Deuteronomy 23 ΚΓ′ IMPORTANT — VERSIFICATION OFFSET: the Rahlfs LXX (with the Masoretic Hebrew) numbers this chapter 1–26 with no gaps, and that numbering is followed here verbatim. PDF
- 24 Deuteronomy 24 ΚΔ′ Deuteronomy 24 is a loosely-bound chain of apodictic and casuistic statutes governing the household and the protection of the socially vulnerable. It opens with the celebrated law of the divorce-certificate (βιβλίον ἀποστασίου, vv. PDF
- 25 Deuteronomy 25 ΚΕ′ Deuteronomy 25 is a miscellany of covenant statutes bound by a single ethical thread — the proportion and limit of justice — gathering six discrete cases: the bounding of judicial flogging at forty stripes 'lest your brother be dishonoured before you' (vv. PDF
- 26 Deuteronomy 26 ΚϚ′ Deuteronomy 26 is the liturgical climax of the Deuteronomic law-code, comprising three movements: the rite of firstfruits with its recited creed (vv. 1–11), the third-year tithe declaration (vv. PDF
- 27 Deuteronomy 27 ΚΖ′ Deuteronomy 27 marks a structural seam in the book: the long second discourse of Moses pauses, and a ceremony of covenant ratification at Shechem is commanded for the day Israel crosses the Jordan (vv. PDF
- 28 Deuteronomy 28 ΚΗ′ Deuteronomy 28 is the longest chapter in the book and, in the Rahlfs/MT versification, comprises 69 verses (the closing v. PDF
- 29 Deuteronomy 29 ΚΘ′ A versification caution is essential here: the LXX (following the Masoretic Hebrew) attaches what English Bibles print as Deut 29:1 to the previous chapter as Hebrew 28:69 — so Rahlfs/Hebrew ch. PDF
- 30 Deuteronomy 30 Λ′ Deuteronomy 30 is one of the theological summits of the book and of the whole Pentateuch: it moves from the promise of restoration after exile (vv. 1–10), through the famous declaration that the commandment is near (vv. PDF
- 31 Deuteronomy 31 ΛΑ′ Deuteronomy 31 is the great transitional chapter of the book: Moses, now 120 years old and 'no longer able to go out and come in' (v. PDF
- 32 Deuteronomy 32 ΛΒ′ Deuteronomy 32 is the Song of Moses (Hebrew Haazinu, 'Give ear'), the great covenant-lawsuit poem (rîb) that Moses teaches Israel as a witness against them (cf. PDF
- 33 Deuteronomy 33 ΛΓ′ Deuteronomy 33 is the Blessing of Moses — 'the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the sons of Israel before his death' (v. PDF
- 34 Deuteronomy 34 ΛΔ′ Deuteronomy 34 is the closing chapter of the Pentateuch — the death and burial of Moses and his epitaph. PDF