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The word ‘Deuteronomy’ is a misnomer. It means ‘the second law’. The name is taken from Deuteronomy 17:18 where the expression really means having a copy of the law. Deuteronomy is therefore not a second, different law, but a renewal of the covenant made on Mount Sinai. For a people on the brink of entering the Promised Land, Deuteronomy confirmed God’s gracious promises as they prepared for new...

exclusive worship of God and the prohibition of idolatry as the Second Word. The remaining commandments are the same as in the Protestant enumeration. Clearly Deuteronomy 5:6 is not the prologue to the covenant, as this is really Deuteronomy 1:1–5. It makes far better sense to take that verse (5:6) and combine it with the exclusive worship of God in 5:7. The sin of having any other god then becomes all the more pointed, as the opening words of the Decalogue relate to the redeemer God who saved his
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