SECOND DISCOURSE.

(44-49) These words form an introduction to the second discourse, which occupies the larger portion of the book — from Deuteronomy 5:1 to the end of Deuteronomy 26. There is no real break between. The present introduction differs from what we find in Deuteronomy 1:1. There is no intimation that this portion of Deuteronomy was a repetition of what had been delivered between Sinai and Kadesh-barnea. What follows is said to have been spoken in the land of Sihon and Og, after the conquest by Israel.

(46) On this side Jordan. — Literally, on the other side. The same expression in Deuteronomy 4:47 is defined by the addition, “toward the sun-rising.”

The whole passage (Deuteronomy 4:44) may be editorial, and added by Joshua in Canaan. But there is no necessity for this view.

(48) Mount Sion. — See Note on Deuteronomy 3:9.

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