Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Today we started a new book and the last book of the law or the Torah, as it's known in the Jewish world.

Of all the Old Testament books quoted in the New Testament, Deuteronomy ranks third, and it's known in the Jewish world. Of all the Old Testament books quoted in the New Testament,

Deuteronomy ranks third, and it's the second most quoted by Jesus. So you may recognize a lot of

what we read. The word Deuteronomy means second law. We're going to revisit some old laws,

as well as see some practical application of them. In many ways, Deuteronomy serves to recap

everything we've read so far. Moses never goes very deep into any of the stories, but he does

skim the surface of a lot of things that will be familiar to you. And that's all perfectly timed

for us. Because after we wrap up Deuteronomy, we're about to move into a more narrative story with lots of new characters, so it'll be great to have a quick refresher on everything we just learned.

Plus, they say you have to hear something eight times before you retain it, so this is all serving to embed it into our hearts and minds.

And anytime we do come across something familiar, I have two challenges for us.

First, resist the potential frustration that might come from this. Be grateful you're recalling the things we've already

read. That means you really learned it. That's worth celebrating. Second, even in the familiar

stories, try to learn something new about God than you learned the first time we covered these

things. Ask him to give you wisdom to see something new that you've you learned the first time we covered these things. Ask him to give

you wisdom to see something new that you've never seen before. Most of these 34 chapters are kind of a

motivational sermon by Moses just before he dies. They're his final words to these people that he spent

the past 40 years serving. He's loved them, sacrificed for them, fought for them, rebuked them,

and now he realizes he won't be there

to guide them anymore. And while he trusts God to fulfill his promises to them, he also knows

the Israelites really well and seems to be kind of nervous that they're going to screw things up

again somehow. Stay tuned to see how that goes. So let's dig in. When the Sinai covenant between God and the Israelites was originally set in place,

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