What happensPermalink
Introduction of Deuteronomy: speaker (Moses); timing (almost forty-one years since leaving Egypt); location (the Arabah, the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea); and purpose (preach the law).
Why it mattersPermalink
It took Israel forty years and eleven months to make an eleven-day journey because of their failure to enter the land when the spies first returned, and they are still not yet in the Promised Land (they are still “beyond the Jordan”).
Key versePermalink
Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to explain this law, saying…