Deuteronomy 29:1
These are the words of the agreement which Moses was ordered by the Lord to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the agreement which he made with them in Horeb.
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Exodus 19:3And Moses went up to God, and the voice of the Lord came to him from the mountain, saying, Say to the family of Jacob, and give word to the children of Israel:
Exodus 24:2And Moses only may come near to the Lord; but the others are not to come near, and the people may not come up with them.
Deuteronomy 1:1These are the words which Moses said to all Israel on the far side of Jordan, in the waste land in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran on the one side, and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab on the other.
Deuteronomy 4:13And he gave you his agreement with you, the ten rules which you were to keep, which he put in writing on the two stones of the law.
Deuteronomy 5:2The Lord our God made an agreement with us in Horeb.
Deuteronomy 29:21He will be marked out by the Lord, from all the tribes of Israel, for an evil fate, in keeping with all the curses of the agreement recorded in this book of the law.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 29:1
The first words of this chapter are the contents of it, "These are the words of the covenant" ( ver. 1 ), that is, these that follow. Here is, I. A recital of God's dealings with them, in order to the bringing of them into this covenant, ver. 2-8 . II. A solemn charge to them to keep the covenant, ver. 9 . III. An abstract of the covenant itself, ver. 12, 13 . IV. A specification of the persons taken into the covenant, ver. 10, 11 , 14 , 15 . V. An intimation of the great design of this covenant against idolatry,… Read the whole commentary →