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Deuteronomy 31:1-30 open_in_new
Farewell Exhortations of Moses to the People and Joshua. He Delivers the Law to the Priests. The Assembling of the Congregation
1. These words] i.e. the following words.
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Deuteronomy 31:2 open_in_new
Go out and come in] i.e. perform the office of a leader: see on Numbers 27:17.
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Deuteronomy 31:3 open_in_new
Jehovah is the real Leader of the hosts of Israel: Joshua is the human instrument: cp. Numbers 23:22.
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Deuteronomy 31:9 open_in_new
This law] i.e. the Deuteronomio law, especially that contained in Deuteronomy 12-26 : see intro. to Deuteronomy 12.
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Deuteronomy 31:10 open_in_new
The Feast of Tabernacles was at the beginning of the year of release: see on Leviticus 23:23-43, and cp. Leviticus 25:9. On the reading of the law at this season see e.g. Nehemiah 8.
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Deuteronomy 31:14 open_in_new
Cp. Numbers 27:12-23 and notes.
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Deuteronomy 31:16 open_in_new
Go a whoring] see on Exodus 34:15.
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Deuteronomy 31:19 open_in_new
A witness for me] When the threatened punishment had fallen, the song would remain to testify that God, who foresaw their apostasy, had warned them against it: see Deuteronomy 31:21. The song would also be a means of bringing them to repentance.
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Deuteronomy 31:26 open_in_new
In the side of] i.e. beside. The tables with the Ten Commandments were kept in the ark: see on Exodus 16:34.