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    DEUTERONOMY

    OUTLINE OF CONTENTS

    • 1

      • Leaving Mount Horeb (1-8)

      • Chiefs and judges appointed (9-18)

      • Disobedience at Kadesh-barnea (19-46)

        • Israel’s refusal to enter the land (26-33)

        • Unsuccessful conquest of Canaan (41-46)

    • 2

      • Wandering in the wilderness for 38 years (1-23)

      • Victory over King Sihon of Heshbon (24-37)

    • 3

      • Victory over King Og of Bashan (1-7)

      • Division of the land east of the Jordan (8-20)

      • Joshua told not to be afraid (21, 22)

      • Moses not to enter the land (23-29)

    • 4

      • A call to obedience (1-14)

        • Do not forget God’s acts (9)

      • Jehovah requires exclusive devotion (15-31)

      • No other God besides Jehovah (32-40)

      • Cities of refuge east of the Jordan (41-43)

      • Introduction to the Law (44-49)

    • 5

      • Jehovah’s covenant at Horeb (1-5)

      • The Ten Commandments restated (6-22)

      • The people’s fear at Mount Sinai (23-33)

    • 6

      • Love Jehovah with all your heart (1-9)

        • “Listen, O Israel” (4)

        • Parents to instruct children (6, 7)

      • Do not forget Jehovah (10-15)

      • Do not put Jehovah to the test (16-19)

      • Tell the next generation (20-25)

    • 7

      • Seven nations to be destroyed (1-6)

      • Why Israel was chosen (7-11)

      • Obedience brings future success (12-26)

    • 8

      • Blessings from Jehovah reviewed (1-9)

        • “Not live by bread alone” (3)

      • Do not forget Jehovah (10-20)

    • 9

      • Why Israel was given the land (1-6)

      • Israel provokes Jehovah four times (7-29)

        • The golden calf (7-14)

        • Moses intercedes (15-21, 25-29)

        • Three more provocations (22)

    • 10

      • Two tablets remade (1-11)

      • What Jehovah requires (12-22)

        • Fear and love Jehovah (12)

    • 11

      • You have seen Jehovah’s greatness (1-7)

      • The Promised Land (8-12)

      • Rewards for obedience (13-17)

      • God’s words to be impressed on hearts (18-25)

      • “A blessing and a curse” (26-32)

    • 12

      • Worship at the place God chooses (1-14)

      • Allowed to eat meat but not blood (15-28)

      • Do not be entrapped by other gods (29-32)

    • 13

      • How to treat apostates (1-18)

    • 14

      • Inappropriate displays of mourning (1, 2)

      • Clean and unclean foods (3-21)

      • A tenth for Jehovah (22-29)

    • 15

      • Debt canceled every seventh year (1-6)

      • Assisting the poor (7-11)

      • Release of slaves every seventh year (12-18)

        • An awl through a slave’s ear (16, 17)

      • Firstborn animals sanctified (19-23)

    • 16

      • Passover; Festival of Unleavened Bread (1-8)

      • Festival of Weeks (9-12)

      • Festival of Booths (13-17)

      • Appointing judges (18-20)

      • Forbidden objects of worship (21, 22)

    • 17

      • Sacrifices to be without defect (1)

      • Handling matters of apostasy (2-7)

      • Difficult judgment matters (8-13)

      • Guidelines for a future king (14-20)

        • King to write a copy of the Law (18)

    • 18

      • Share of priests and Levites (1-8)

      • Occult practices forbidden (9-14)

      • A prophet like Moses (15-19)

      • How to identify false prophets (20-22)

    • 19

      • Bloodguilt and cities of refuge (1-13)

      • Boundary markers not to be moved (14)

      • Witnesses in court (15-21)

        • Two or three witnesses required (15)

    • 20

      • Rules for warfare (1-20)

        • Exemptions from military service (5-9)

    • 21

      • Unsolved murders (1-9)

      • Marrying captive women (10-14)

      • Right of the firstborn (15-17)

      • A stubborn son (18-21)

      • A man hung on a stake accursed (22, 23)

    • 22

      • Respect for neighbors’ animals (1-4)

      • Wearing garments of the opposite sex (5)

      • Kindness to animals (6, 7)

      • Parapet for the roof (8)

      • Improper mixtures (9-11)

      • Tassels on clothing (12)

      • Laws on sexual violations (13-30)

    • 23

      • Those ineligible for God’s congregation (1-8)

      • Cleanliness of the camp (9-14)

      • Fugitive slaves (15, 16)

      • Prostitution forbidden (17, 18)

      • Interest and vows (19-23)

      • What passersby are allowed to eat (24, 25)

    • 24

      • Marriage and divorce (1-5)

      • Respect for life (6-9)

      • Showing concern for the poor (10-18)

      • Rules on gleaning (19-22)

    • 25

      • Flogging regulated (1-3)

      • Do not muzzle a threshing bull (4)

      • Brother-in-law marriage (5-10)

      • Improper grabbing in fights (11, 12)

      • Honest weights and measures (13-16)

      • Amalekites to be destroyed (17-19)

    • 26

      • Offering the firstfruits (1-11)

      • A second tithe (12-15)

      • Israel, a special property to Jehovah (16-19)

    • 27

      • The Law to be written on stones (1-10)

      • At Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim (11-14)

      • The curses recited (15-26)

    • 28

      • Blessings for obedience (1-14)

      • Curses for disobedience (15-68)

    • 29

      • Covenant with Israel at Moab (1-13)

      • Warning against disobedience (14-29)

        • Things concealed, things revealed (29)

    • 30

      • Returning to Jehovah (1-10)

      • Jehovah’s commands not too difficult (11-14)

      • Choosing between life and death (15-20)

    • 31

      • Moses about to die (1-8)

      • Public reading of the Law (9-13)

      • Joshua appointed (14, 15)

      • Israel’s rebelliousness foretold (16-30)

        • A song to teach Israel (19, 22, 30)

    • 32

      • Song of Moses (1-47)

        • Jehovah, the Rock (4)

        • Israel forgets its Rock (18)

        • “Vengeance is mine” (35)

        • “Be glad, you nations, with his people” (43)

      • Moses to die on Mount Nebo (48-52)

    • 33

      • Moses blesses the tribes (1-29)

        • Jehovah’s “everlasting arms” (27)

    • 34

      • Jehovah shows Moses the land (1-4)

      • Death of Moses (5-12)