Many recently printed prayer books offer Luria's reading as the correct one for
Deuteronomy 9:7.
Summary: Five Aspects of Bill C-31 Which Run Counter to
DeuteronomyIn Exodus (20:11) we read, "Far in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all therein, and rated on the seventh day; therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath and made it holy." In contrast, in
Deuteronomy (5:15), the reason provided for Sabbath observance is different: "And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the Lord, your G-d, removed you from there with a strong hand and an outstretched arm; therefore, the Lord, your G-d commanded you to do (observe) the
The permeation of passages of
Deuteronomy in Christian scriptures testifies that Israelite religion is a core belief in first-century Christianity.
The author's choice of
Deuteronomy as a sample of scribal culture is dependent on the 1889 work of Karl Marti, who identified the torat yhwh attributed to the "deceitful pen of the scribes," in Jeremiah 8:8, as the book of
Deuteronomy.
Deuteronomy sums it up best: "But any prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, or who presumes to speak in nay name a word that I have not commanded the prophet to speak--that prophet shall die" (18:20).
"Underneath are the everlasting arms." -
Deuteronomy 33:27
Firstly, like Genesis, the Book of
Deuteronomy had a disappointing tendency to contain poorly constructed sentences which began with conjunctions or, at best, prepositions.
In
Deuteronomy 23:12-13 (Revised Standard Version), the ancient Israelites are instructed, "You shall have a place outside the camp and you shall go out to it; and you shall have a stick with your weapons; and when you sit down outside, you shall dig a hole with it, and turn back and cover up your excrement." These aren't the kind of verses dwelt upon in most houses of worship, but in academic Bible scholarship, anything goes.
Here you will learn something about the history of the text of the Old and New Testaments, and about the evolution of the sex laws from
Deuteronomy to Leviticus to the New Testament and into later Christian thought.