necessary in the lives of men if they are to turn from their own ways and follow the ways of God. Reminding them that they had been chosen by God as a special people, he presented to them their obligation as the people of God: “Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked” (Deut. 10:16). Again, in his farewell address, Moses told them the method of getting back into the will of God if they found themselves under His chastening rod because of their sin. They were to