Wednesday Bible Study: A strange assortment

Deuteronomy 27 is something of a head scratcher. It strongly emphasizes a set of rules, two of which overlap with the Big Ten, the rest of which are a weird potpourri. Deuteronomy often has this feeling of having been thrown together more or less at random.27 Now Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, “Keep all the commandment which I command you this day.2 And on the day you pass over the Jordan to the land which theLord your God gives you, you shall set up large stones, and plaster them with plaster;3 and you shall write upon them all the words of this law, when you pass over to enter the land which theLord your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as theLord, the God of your fathers, has promised you.4 And when you have passed over the Jordan, you shall set up these stones, concerning which I command you this day, on Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.5 And there you shall build an altar to theLord your God, an altar of stones; you shall lift up no iron tool upon them.6 You shall build an altar to theLord your God of unhewn[a] stones; and you shall offer burnt offerings on it to theLord your God;7 and you shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there; and you shall rejoice before theLord your God.8 And you shall write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly. ”I isn ' t clear whether they ' re supposed to write all the laws from this entire book -- which wo...
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