Deuteronomy 31:1 - Chapters 31-33. Summary

And Moses went ; i . e . disposed or set himself. The meaning is not that he "went away" into the tent of teaching, as one of the Targums explains it, which does not agree with what follows; nor is "went" merely equivalent to "moreover;" nor is it simply redundant;—it intimates that the speaking was consequent on Moses having arranged, disposed, or set himself to speak (cf. Exodus 2:1 ; Joshua 9:4 ; Job 1:4 ).