Ver. 1. When the Lord thy God, &c.— Moses, having pressed upon the people the great commandment of loving God with all the heart, now proceeds to remind them of other precepts belonging to the second table, though not in an exact manner, nor without interspersing some ceremonial matters. He begins with what concerns that principal part of our neighbour's property, his life.
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Deuteronomy 19:1
1 When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedesta them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;