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Work

Deuteronomy

Moses

Speeches of memory and law on the plains of Moab before entry into the promised land.

Composition
traditional Mosaic attribution; received composition and redaction across several centuries
Sources and precision

Attribution to Moses is the product’s filing convention. It does not settle the book’s composite formation or date.

Confidence D · disputed range

Tradition
Judaism
Period
Antiquity
Languages
Hebrew · French · English
Extent
34 passages · 28,325 words

Before reading

What you will learn

See how memory of oppression becomes a test of justice, then formulate one concrete act protecting the most exposed.

Short summary

Speeches of memory and law on the plains of Moab before entry into the promised land.

Long summary

Deuteronomy retells the journey, reformulates laws, and turns memory into present obligation. Loving God, teaching, judging justly, and protecting stranger, widow, and orphan are tied to the experience of bondage.

The frame presents Moses speaking before his death, but the book also contains its own narrative closure. The persona respects that boundary and does not treat every sentence as certain autobiography.

Inside this work

The table of contents follows the divisions actually carried by the corpus.

Work › Chapter › Verse

  1. Chapter 1
  2. Chapter 2
  3. Chapter 3
  4. Chapter 4
  5. Chapter 5
  6. Chapter 6
  7. Chapter 7
  8. Chapter 8
  9. Chapter 9
  10. Chapter 10
  11. Chapter 11
  12. Chapter 12
  13. Chapter 13
  14. Chapter 14
  15. Chapter 15
  16. Chapter 16
  17. Chapter 17
  18. Chapter 18
  19. Chapter 19
  20. Chapter 20
  21. Chapter 21
  22. Chapter 22
  23. Chapter 23
  24. Chapter 24
  25. Chapter 25
  26. Chapter 26
  27. Chapter 27
  28. Chapter 28
  29. Chapter 29
  30. Chapter 30
  31. Chapter 31
  32. Chapter 32
  33. Chapter 33
  34. Chapter 34

Concepts covered

Historical context

The world around the text

The corpus manifests do not yet establish the precise place and circumstances of composition. The images below document the author’s world or the text’s transmission. They do not claim to show the exact scene of writing.

These are modern reconstructions. They situate a documented place, practice, or transmission and are not period documents.

Modern reconstruction of Teaching covenant at Sinai for Deuteronomy on Prokopton42.com
Teaching covenant at SinaiA modern reconstruction of covenantal teaching around Exodus 19-34. It does not identify one modern mountain as the biblical Sinai.Torah, Exodus 19-34
Modern reconstruction of Nearby historical landmark, 539 BCE for Deuteronomy on Prokopton42.com
Nearby historical landmark, 539 BCECyrus takes Babylon and incorporates its institutions into the Achaemenid Empire. The image situates Deuteronomy without claiming to show its scene of composition.
Modern reconstruction of Nearby historical landmark, 539 BCE for Deuteronomy on Prokopton42.com
Nearby historical landmark, 539 BCECyrus takes Babylon and incorporates its institutions into the Achaemenid Empire. The image situates Deuteronomy without claiming to show its scene of composition.

What the world looked like

World of 1989

Modern reconstruction of the material world around Deuteronomy: Technology, science, and care
Technology, science, and carePersonal computers, satellites, video, industrial robots, and expensive mobile phones exist, but the public Web does not yet. Computing, genetics, climate science, cosmology, and medical imaging produce growing data and international collaboration. CT, MRI, transplantation, vaccines, and intensive care advance; the AIDS epidemic exposes both medical capacity and its limits.
Modern reconstruction of the material world around Deuteronomy: Travel and communication
Travel and communicationCars, high-speed rail, metros, aircraft, and containers globalize people and goods. Fixed telephones, fax, television, radio, and newspapers predominate. Email and computer networks remain mainly professional or academic.
Modern reconstruction of the material world around Deuteronomy: Farming and food
Farming and foodMachinery, chemical inputs, breeding, and cold chains support high yields with increasingly debated social and environmental costs.
Modern reconstruction of the material world around Deuteronomy: Clothing, women and men
Clothing, women and menLoose suits, jeans, trainers, women’s power suits, sportswear, and urban subcultures create highly varied silhouettes.
State of technology
Personal computers, satellites, video, industrial robots, and expensive mobile phones exist, but the public Web does not yet.
Science and knowledge
Computing, genetics, climate science, cosmology, and medical imaging produce growing data and international collaboration.
Medicine and care
CT, MRI, transplantation, vaccines, and intensive care advance; the AIDS epidemic exposes both medical capacity and its limits.
Transport
Cars, high-speed rail, metros, aircraft, and containers globalize people and goods.
Agriculture and food
Machinery, chemical inputs, breeding, and cold chains support high yields with increasingly debated social and environmental costs.
Communication
Fixed telephones, fax, television, radio, and newspapers predominate. Email and computer networks remain mainly professional or academic.
Clothing and fashion
Loose suits, jeans, trainers, women’s power suits, sportswear, and urban subcultures create highly varied silhouettes.

Editions, translations, and provenance

The following carriers represent the text. They do not create new passage identities.

  • HebrewWestminster Leningrad Codex (eBible 2025 source) · 2025
  • FrenchFraternite de Tiberiade · Sainte Bible neo-Crampon Libre (2022) · 2022
  • EnglishWorld English Bible editorial project · World English Bible, Catholic book order (2020) · 2020

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