Deuteronomy 32:44

Concluding Note. Can hardly be from the same editorial hand as Deuteronomy 31:30. It is probable from the opening words, And Moses came, that this is a fragment from the end of a narrative of divine instructions given to Moses regarding the Song, such as we find in Deuteronomy 31:16-22 (cp. Exodus 19:7; Exodus 24:3); and indeed LXX repeats Deuteronomy 31:22 before it. Its position here is another sign of the editorial re-arrangements which the materials composing these chs. have undergone. Notice the non-deuter. phrase the people, not all Israel. For this SongLXX has this Law, probably an inadvertence. Hoshea-(Numbers 13:8; Numbers 13:16, P) is a clerical error (by omission of one jot!) for Yehoshua-or Joshua, which is confirmed by all the versions. The addition of Joshua agrees with the Pl. write yeof Deuteronomy 31:19.