Book of Deuteronomy


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Noun1.Book of Deuteronomy - the fifth book of the Old Testament; contains a second statement of Mosaic law
mezuza, mezuzah - religious texts from Deuteronomy inscribed on parchment and rolled up in a case that is attached to the doorframe of many Jewish households in accordance with Jewish law
Laws, Pentateuch, Torah - the first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew Bible considered as a unit
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Deputy President William Ruto has cautioned MPs against endorsing National Assembly Leader of Minority John Mbadi's proposal to cap donations to Sh100,000.Dr Ruto has warned the lawmakers of God's wrath should they approve the amendments."I want to refer to you MPs to the book of Deuteronomy 8:11 which says: 'Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day," Dr Ruto said on Sunday.
Revising his 2018 doctoral dissertation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mattison wades into the debate about whether the laws in the Book of Deuteronomy were meant to supplement or replace the laws in the Covenant Collection, which Deuteronomy repeats with revision.
The book of Deuteronomy contains some passages of sheer beauty, exulted thoughts and dazzling images for our faith.
In the Book of Deuteronomy of the Old Testament, we see the following verses: "For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
Describing the inspiration for this recipe, Zibell, a former real-estate broker who immigrated to Israel from Montreal, referred to how Moses describes the promised land in the Book of Deuteronomy: "A land of wheat and barley, of vines, figs, and pomegranates, a land of olives and honey." So the wheat and barley, along with local spring water, and oak barrels that once held wine for the nearby Golan Heights Winery are the ingredients that make his Golani Two Grain Whisky especially Israeli, he told me as he smoked a cigar outside his current distillery in the Katzrin Industrial Park.
He also attended major seminars on the Book of Deuteronomy at the Bat Kol Institute in Jerusalem, Israel.
The leaves from these folios derive from an earlier Coptic manuscript containing passages from the Book of Deuteronomy, which is part of the Torah and the Christian Old Testament.
Bosma show how the missional hermeneutic applies to the book of Deuteronomy and Psalms 67 and 96.
Chapter 8 places the story of Josiah's reform along with the book of Deuteronomy in the fifth century B.C.E.
The ancient Canaanites lived in the cities Sodom and Gomorrah, which were reportedly destroyed by God, according to the Book of Genesis. The Old Testament Book of Deuteronomy said God told the Israelites to wipe out the Canaanites. 
(4.) Fluctuation in the number of second person verbs is not uncommon in the book of Deuteronomy, and in general reflects the fact that the nation as a whole can be addressed as a singular collective, or as a plural body with many individuals.