The Torah · Old Testament
Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy is book 5 of 66 and belongs to the Torah in the Old Testament. It has 34 chapters, each with source-checked General, Historical and Literary context. 40 people are indexed in its passages.
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Chapters
- Deuteronomy 1: Moses recalls the road from Horeb and the refusal at Kadesh
Moses addresses Israel in Moab and recalls the command to leave Horeb and possess the promised land. The people's increase led him to appoint tribal… - Deuteronomy 2: Protected neighboring lands and the battle with Sihon
Moses recalls Israel turning north after circling Seir. The Lord forbids taking land from Esau's descendants, Moab or Ammon, identifying those… - Deuteronomy 3: Og's defeat, the eastern allotment and Moses' denied request
Moses recounts the defeat of Og at Edrei and the capture of his sixty fortified cities, along with many unwalled towns. He explicitly includes men… - Deuteronomy 4: Remembering Horeb and guarding the covenant
Moses urges Israel to obey the statutes without adding to or taking from the command, remember what they have seen and teach their children. Horeb is… - Deuteronomy 5: The covenant commands and the people's request for a mediator
Moses calls Israel to hear, learn and do the covenant commands. He presents Horeb as a covenant with the living listeners and recalls standing… - Deuteronomy 6: Loving the Lord and teaching the story of deliverance
Moses calls Israel to hear that the Lord their God is one Lord and to love him with all heart, soul and strength. The commanded words are to be kept… - Deuteronomy 7: Israel's calling, the coming conflict and the command against idols
Moses commands Israel to destroy the seven named nations before them, make no covenant with them and show no mercy. He forbids intermarriage, warning… - Deuteronomy 8: Remembering dependence when the land brings plenty
Moses interprets the forty-year wilderness journey as humbling and testing Israel. Hunger and manna taught that life depends on what comes from the… - Deuteronomy 9: The land is no proof of Israel's righteousness
Moses warns Israel against treating possession of the land as a reward for its own righteousness. He attributes the coming displacement to the other… - Deuteronomy 10: Renewed tablets and a call to love the stranger
Moses recalls the command to cut two new tablets and make a wooden ark. The Lord writes the former words, and Moses places the tablets in the ark… - Deuteronomy 11: Remembered acts, promised rain and a choice before Israel
Moses addresses listeners who have seen the Lord's acts, distinguishing them from children who have not. He recalls Egypt, the sea, the wilderness… - Deuteronomy 12: The chosen place of worship and meals in the towns
Israel is commanded to destroy the nations' worship places and bring its sacred offerings to the place the Lord will choose. Households, servants and… - Deuteronomy 13: Enticement to other gods and the prescribed penalties
The chapter addresses attempts within Israel to turn people toward other gods. Even a prophet whose sign comes true must not be followed if that is… - Deuteronomy 14: Food distinctions and the sharing of the tithe
Israel's identity as the Lord's children and holy people grounds instructions about mourning and food. Cutting the body and shaving between the eyes… - Deuteronomy 15: Debt release, aid to the poor and freedom after service
A seven-year release forbids creditors to exact a debt from an Israelite neighbor, while distinguishing a foreign debtor. The people must lend to a… - Deuteronomy 16: Shared festivals and impartial judgment
The festival instructions begin with Passover in Abib, linking unleavened bread and the evening sacrifice to Israel's departure from Egypt. Seven… - Deuteronomy 17: Requirements for judgment and limits on a king
After prohibiting blemished sacrifices, the chapter prescribes investigation of worship directed to other gods or heavenly bodies. An established… - Deuteronomy 18: Provision for Levites and a prophet like Moses
The priests and Levites receive sacred portions rather than a tribal inheritance among their brothers. Specified sacrifice portions, first produce… - Deuteronomy 19: Refuge, boundaries and truthful witnesses
Moses commands three accessible cities of refuge in the land Israel is to possess. His example is a woodcutter whose loose axe head kills a… - Deuteronomy 20: Exemptions, siege and the treatment of cities
Before battle, the priest tells Israel not to fear superior forces because the Lord who brought them from Egypt goes with them. Officers release men… - Deuteronomy 21: Unanswered bloodshed, captive marriage and family judgments
When a slain person is found and the killer is unknown, the nearest city's elders perform a heifer rite, deny involvement and ask that innocent blood… - Deuteronomy 22: Neighbourly duties and severe sexual penalties
The chapter begins with duties that cannot be ignored: return lost property, help a fallen animal and put a protective edge around a new roof. It… - Deuteronomy 23: Assembly boundaries, a holy camp and everyday obligations
Moses gives restrictions on entry into the Lord's assembly involving genital injury, birth status, and Ammonite or Moabite descent. The Ammonite and… - Deuteronomy 24: Households, debt and the memory of slavery
An opening divorce case forbids a first husband from taking back a woman after she has married another man and that later marriage ends. A newly… - Deuteronomy 25: Limits on punishment, family duty and honest measures
Judges must distinguish the innocent from the guilty and supervise any beating according to the offence, with forty blows as the maximum. An ox must… - Deuteronomy 26: A harvest basket and a remembered journey
Once settled in the land, the worshipper is to bring a basket of firstfruits to the place the Lord chooses. The priest sets it before the altar, and… - Deuteronomy 27: Written stones and a people answering Amen
Moses and the elders command Israel to write the law on plastered stones after crossing the Jordan. On Mount Ebal they are to build an altar of whole… - Deuteronomy 28: Blessing, reversal and the terror of siege
Moses sets out blessings conditional on obedience: fruitful households and land, rain, security against enemies and a position of lending rather than… - Deuteronomy 29: The covenant in Moab and the danger of self-assurance
The narrator introduces the covenant made in Moab alongside the covenant at Horeb. Moses recalls Egypt, forty years of wilderness provision and… - Deuteronomy 30: Return, a near word and the choice of life
Moses looks beyond blessing and curse to Israel remembering among the nations and returning to the Lord with its children. In that setting the Lord… - Deuteronomy 31: Joshua's charge and words that remain after Moses
Moses announces that he is 120 and will not cross the Jordan. He encourages Israel and publicly charges Joshua to lead the people into the land… - Deuteronomy 32: The song of the Rock and Moses' final summons
The song calls heaven and earth to listen and praises the Lord as the just Rock. It recalls his care for Jacob in the wilderness through images of a… - Deuteronomy 33: Moses blesses the tribes before his death
Introduced as Moses' blessing before death, the poem recalls the Lord's appearing and the law as the inheritance of Jacob's congregation. The tribal… - Deuteronomy 34: Moses sees the land and dies in Moab
Moses climbs from the plains of Moab to Nebo, at the top of Pisgah opposite Jericho. The Lord shows him the land and recalls the oath to Abraham…
