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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...

spoke for false gods but men who said the wrong things about the true God. An earlier passage in Deuteronomy had already alerted the people to the peril (13:1–5). Jeremiah was particularly concerned about such men and their dangerous ‘peace at any price’ message. They gave the people the words they wanted rather than the truth they needed.29 Moses here shares with the people three characteristics of an authentic prophet. Like the priests, the prophets would
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