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The bestselling Encountering the Old Testament has become the leading Old Testament survey text. In addition to first-rate scholarship, this textbook boasts focus boxes containing supplemental information, chapter summaries, study questions, an instructor’s manual and many other helpful features.

principles were not just for their ancestors at Mount Sinai. This new generation of Israelites must now accept the law as their own (5:2–3). As we saw in the chapters on Exodus and Leviticus, law means divine instruction for righteous living. In the general presentation of this instruction, Moses gave the most important expression of the Israelite concept of monotheism: “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one” (6:4). This famous verse is known as the Shema, which is the first Hebrew word
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