Various others including G-d's promise to make His dwelling among the people.Those who keep the covenant will be G-d's own possession among all the peoples and they shall be to Him a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.The Babylonian Talmud records that there are 365 negative commandments, corresponding to the number of days in a solar year, and 248 positive commandments, ascribed to the number of bones and significant organs in the human body. Traditionally there are 613 commandments given within the Sinai Covenant. This is reiterated in Numbers 15:16 where G-d instructs that "there is to be one law and one ordinance for you and the alien who sojourns with you" as well as other passages in Scripture. The covenant is made with the sons of Israel ( Exodus 12:37) and the mixed multitude that was with them ( Exodus 12:38).This is a re-giving of the Sinai covenant. Moshe goes on after verse 7 to quote the remainder of the 10 commandments and other statutes. He said, 'I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. The LORD spoke to you face to face at the mountain from the midst of the fire, while I was standing between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD for you were afraid because of the fire and did not go up the mountain. The LORD did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, with all those of us alive here today. The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I am speaking today in your hearing, that you may learn them and observe them carefully. 1Īs the American Heritage Dictionary reveals, we do not find here a "second law" but a re-giving of the Law that was delivered at Mt. The American Heritage Dictionary provides the following definition: The name "Deuteronomy" comes to modern English readers from the Septuagint and the Greek name for this book of the Bible: deuteronomion. In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that the LORD had commanded him to give to them, after he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei. It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea. These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab. The book of Deuteronomy begins with these words: