Deuteronomy 5:32,33

Exhortations to obey this new charge: a number of characteristic deuteronomic formulas. Because of this and specially because of the phrase which Jehovah your God has commanded you, these verses are taken by some to be a later addition. Yet it was surely quite logical for the writer of the rest of the chapter to put the phrase in Moses" mouth in Moab, because God had already at Ḥoreb charged him with these laws; the phrase does not imply their previous publication.

ye shall not turn aside, etc.] Deuteronomy 17:11; Deuteronomy 17:20; Deuteronomy 28:14, and in deuteronomic passages in other books; cp. Deuteronomy 9:2.

the way which Jehovah your God has commanded you that is through me and which I am now about to show you. The phrase is also found Deuteronomy 9:12; Deuteronomy 9:16; Deuteronomy 11:28; Deuteronomy 31:29 (all pl.), and in Deuteronomy 13:5 (Sg.). To walk in His ways, Deuteronomy 8:6 (Sg.), Deuteronomy 11:22 (Pl.). Buhl (Sozial. Verhältn. der Isr.9) remarks on the suitability to nomads of this metaphor; but surely it was equally suitable for peasants. No inference as to date can therefore be drawn from it. Cp. in the N.T. ἡ ὀδός Acts 9:2; Acts 19:9; Acts 19:23; Acts 22:4, and the Ḳoran Sur. 1.

live Deuteronomy 4:1.

may be well with you Deuteronomy 5:16; Deuteronomy 5:29, Deuteronomy 4:40.

prolong … days used both in Pl. here and in Deuteronomy 4:26 (cp. Deuteronomy 30:18), Deuteronomy 11:9; Deuteronomy 32:47, and in Sg. Deuteronomy 4:40; that thy days may be long, Deuteronomy 5:16; Deuteronomy 6:2; Deuteronomy 25:15; cp. Deuteronomy 22:7.