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Numbers, Part 2 and Deuteronomy: Looking Back, Heading Home

  1. Lesson One
    Ready or Not! (Num 20-36)
    17 Activities
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    5 Assessments
  2. Lesson Two
    Covenantal History (Deut 1-4)
    21 Activities
  3. Lesson Three
    Covenantal Challenge (Deut 5–26)
    12 Activities
  4. Lesson Four
    Case Study: Moses (Ex-Deut)
    11 Activities
  5. Lesson Five
    Looking Back, Heading Home (Num, Deut)
    12 Activities
  6. Course Wrap-Up
    Course Completion
    1 Activity
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    1 Assessment

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In Deuteronomy 31, God gives Moses a song that he recites for the people in chapter 32. The song is for the Israelites to sing in the years to come, “so that it may be a witness for me against them” (Deut 31:19). The first performance of this song is a solo, but from this point forward it would have been a liturgical event, likely sung in parts by the Israelites. Some commentators have suggested breakdowns of the different parts of this song, based on changes in tone and shifts in speaker.

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VersesContentSpeaker
1-3Introduction
4Creedal Affirmation
Pause
5-6Summary declaration of the indictment
7Call to remember Yahweh’s grace
8-14Recitation of Yahweh’s grace
14-18Declaration of the indictment of the people
Pause
19-20Declaration of Yahweh’s sentence
20-27Recitation of Yahweh’s judgment speech
27Declaration by the nations
28-29Description of the nations
30Question asked of the nations
31Declaration of the Israelites
32-35Recitation of Yahweh’s description of Israel’s enemies
Pause
36-37Declaration of Yahweh’s commitment to his people
37-38Recitation of Israel’s challenge to the nations
39-42Recitation of Yahweh’s judgment speech against the nations
43Concluding summons to praise