Deuteronomy: chapter summaries
Moses’ farewell words before Israel enters the land.
- 1 Moses recalls leaving Horeb
- 2 Wandering and early victories
- 3 Victory over Og; Moses sees the land
- 4 Obey, and do not worship idols
- 5 The Ten Commandments repeated
- 6 Hear, O Israel
- 7 A holy people
- 8 Remember the wilderness
- 9 Not for Israel’s righteousness
- 10 New tablets; what God requires
- 11 Love and obey; blessing and curse
- 12 One place of worship
- 13 Warnings against false prophets
- 14 Clean food and tithes
- 15 The seventh-year release; care for the poor
- 16 Passover, Weeks and Booths; fair judges
- 17 Judges and the king’s rules
- 18 Priests and prophets
- 19 Cities of refuge; witnesses
- 20 Rules for war
- 21 An unsolved murder; family laws
- 22 Laws about neighbors and purity
- 23 Who may join the assembly; camp laws
- 24 Divorce, pledges and fairness
- 25 Fair punishment and honest weights
- 26 Firstfruits and tithes
- 27 Stones on Mount Ebal; curses
- 28 Blessings and curses
- 29 The covenant renewed in Moab
- 30 Choose life
- 31 Joshua succeeds Moses
- 32 The song of Moses
- 33 Moses blesses the tribes
- 34 Moses dies on Mount Nebo