05/06/2025 – Day 310 – Deuteronomy – Chapters 10 – 12 // “The Covenant Renewed” / “What God Requires” / “Remember and Obey” / “A Blessing and a Curse” / “The Chosen Place of Worship” / “Slaughtering Animals to Eat”
The verse commentary is out of “The Apologetics Study Bible”:
“10:4. The Lord wrote the same words on the second set of tablets as the first. This action attests the truth of ‘verbal plenary inspiration,’ the understanding that ‘the Scriptures cannot be broken’ (John 10:35) – its very words are inspired and inviolable in the original. It was not sufficient to replicate the ideas in the first table of commandments. Their exact words must be repeated and faithfully recorded (see Jeremiah 36:28, 32).”
“11:9 Anyone who has traveled to the Holy Land might take issue with the description of it as ‘flowing with milk and honey,’ but that response overlooks the land’s complete agricultural history. The term is a stock phrase that combines products derived from agriculture (milk) and those that are natural, that is , obtained apart from the human labor (honey). As such, it illustrates the land’s fruitfulness. Compared the arid and bare deserts of Sinai, Canaan was a virtual Eden. Archalogical research has revealed that the region was more cultivated and forested in ancient times than in recent centuries, due to elaborate systems of water retention and irrigation. Under Turkish occupation the land was stripped for lumber and became more arid, but reforestation by the Israeli’s has brought back much of the country’s original character.”
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“Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.” (Deuteronomy 11:19)
“Taken literally, this passage would suggest that nothing was to occur in family life except the verbal communication of the law. But Moses’ intention here is to impress upon parents that their very lifestyle as well as their words is to be instructive for their children (see 6:7).”
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“12:16 – The prohibition agains eating blood is not merely a ritual or dietary taboo. Blood stands for life in the OT (cp. Genesis 9: 4-6; Leviticus 17: 10 – 16; Deuteronomy 12:23), and life, whether animal or human, is sacred. As such, it belongs to the Lord and must be poured out upon the altar or the ground as a sign of its being returned to Him (Leviticus 3:2; Deuteronomy 12:24).”
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Soli Deo Gloria!