This and the following chapter contain the address of Moses to the people on the solemn renewal of the covenant. Consult the marginal references fo…

These are the words of the covenant.—The Hebrew Bibles add this verse to the previous chapter and begin chapter 29 with its second verse. …

That is the preamble, just as in legal documents there is usually some statement of the purpose and intent of the legal contract before proceeding …

These [are] the words of the covenant
Not what go before, but follow after, in the next chapters, to the end of the …

Both past mercies, and new mercies, should be considered by us as motives for obedience. The hearing ear, and seeing eye, and the understanding hea…