Welcome to the Scroll of Deuteronomy.

This is a big day for us here at the podcast because we've been working our way through

the Torah all year and today we get to open up Final Scroll.

Now one thing that's been hard for people who read through the Torah is that it has so

many ancient laws.

And so I guess it's best to inform you now that Deuteronomy, the Final Scroll, has a lot

more laws.

In fact, Deuteronomy is the Greek name for the book and it literally means second law.

But as you read many of the laws, you're going to be like, I think I heard that before.

And that's because you did.

Dozens of the laws in Deuteronomy are nearly verbatim to laws that you came across in numbers,

Leviticus, or in Exodus.

And so it just kind of begs the question, what's that about?

A few are totally identical.

But often there's little adaptations or changes, it's an explanation.

So this renewed giving of the Torah is both recalling the wisdom of the earlier commands,

but applying them in new ways for a new generation and a new situation.

That's the dynamic.

You see the laws so far have been given to the first generation of Israel who's left

Egypt and is now wandering through the wilderness.

Moses is realizing that those laws need to be looked at again afresh for a new generation.

The generation who's going to go into the promised land.

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