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The Message of Deuteronomy: Not by Bread Alone is unavailable, but you can change that!

Reading Deuteronomy can be like standing among the children of Israel before Moses, hearing him address us as the next generation of the covenant people of God. Though we will soon pass over the Jordan into the good land, we will still struggle with temptations and opposition. Moses challenges us to face and apply God’s covenant word to new situations. Raymond Brown guides Christians to hear and...

Greek translation of the Old Testament (the Septuagint) called it Deuteronomy which means ‘second law’. It is not another law, different from that conveyed to Moses at Sinai, rather a faithful repetition and more detailed amplification of God’s word addressed to his servant at Sinai, applied to life in a different context prior to the entry into Canaan, and relevant to us in present-day life. One of the most interesting aspects of Old Testament study over the past few
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