preaching of Moses. Initially 4:9 calls those listening to Moses’ discourse to remember ‘the things that you have seen with your own eyes’. In view of the recent demise of the Kadesh generation, and in context in ch. 4 this refers most naturally to the events at Baal-Peor. However in v. 10 Israel is called to ‘Remember the day you stood before Yahweh your God at Horeb’. The glaring problem is that if we take 1:35 and 2:14 seriously, none of them did experience the Horeb theophany. Here Moses is employing
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