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Hear, O Israel
Deuteronomy 5:1-6:25
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This song belongs to the Deuteronomy collection. 2 recordings are available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.
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Named in this songHorebMosesEgypt
About the passage
Deuteronomy 5: Freedom receives its covenant shape
Moses brings Horeb into the present tense. The covenant spoken there is not treated as an antique agreement belonging only to people who have died; the living assembly must hear, learn, keep, and do it. The commandments begin with rescue from Egypt, then order worship, speech, Sabbath rest, family honor, life, marriage, property, testimony, and desire. Deuteronomy gives the Sabbath a social edge by insisting that servants rest as surely as masters do. After hearing God from the fire, Israel asks Moses to mediate further instruction. God approves the request, but his response exposes the deeper issue: saying the right thing in an overwhelming moment is not the same as having a heart that will keep obeying after everyone returns to ordinary life.
Study Deuteronomy 5 in depthDeuteronomy 6: The words must live in the house
Chapter 6 moves the covenant from the mountain into the house. Love for the one LORD must involve heart, soul, and might, and the words are to be taught until they inhabit sitting, walking, lying down, rising, doorposts, and gates. Moses knows prosperity will create a new kind of test. Israel will enter cities it did not build, houses it did not fill, wells it did not dig, and vineyards it did not plant. Fullness can make the rescue from Egypt disappear from memory. Massah warns against demanding that God prove himself on Israel's terms, while a child's future question gives the household a better pattern: explain the commands by beginning with bondage, deliverance, and the purpose for which Israel was brought out and brought in.
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