In Deuteronomy 4:15-24, Moses counsels this generation of Israelites to watch themselves very carefully, remembering that they had seen no physical form of God, and thus, to vigilantly keep from making carved images in the form or likeness of anything…
Beginning with Deuteronomy 4, Moses is no longer speaking of the past Israelite experiences. He now addresses the congregation in the present with exhortations and reminders. He instructs the Israelites (this 2nd generation) to listen to both the statutes and…
In this passage, Moses speaks of a previous generation, one that wasted in the wilderness, but he speaks to this next generation as if they were complicit actors in the previous drama of 38 years prior. Moses recounts how at…