Deuteronomy 5:6-21

REPETITION OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, Deuteronomy 5:6-21.

Here, on the plains of Moab, in sight of the Land of Promise, thirty-eight years after the first announcement of the law on Sinai, Moses repeats the code which Jehovah had given for the moral guidance of his people. There are variations in language, but not such as to change the meaning of a single commandment. We may suppose that in Exodus we have an exact copy of the law as written on the tables of stone. Here the substance is given in an address, so that we are not to expect exact verbal agreement. Comp. notes on Exodus 20:0.