Today, I am reading and commenting on  Deuteronomy 1-2.

Deuteronomy begins with Moses giving a recap of the travels which the Israelites had taken after leaving Mount Sinai until they were about to enter the land of Canaan after spending forty years in the desert.  None of those present, except for a couple of special cases, had been adults when the Israelites left Mount Sinai.  The accounts of these events from Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers were from the perspective of “as it happens”.  The difference between the perspectives from which the stories of what happened were told explains the differences between the details.  The accounts in Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers were more detailed descriptions of what happened.  The account here in Deuteronomy is a summary of events.  Today’s passage also provides context for the Law of God which Moses was about to lay out for the Israelites.  The laws laid out here were not new.  God had given them to Moses to give to the Israelites as they issues arose while they traveled.  Now Moses is about to lay them out for the people all together.  The context is important because it reminds the people that God gave these laws as He was doing miraculous things for them and in the face of their repeated rebellion against Him.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.