Deuteronomy 4:44

44 Now this [is] the law that Moses set {before} the {Israelites};

Deuteronomy 4:44 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 4:44

And this is the law which Moses set before the children of
Israel.
] Not the law concerning the cities of refuge, but the law of the ten commands repeated in the following chapter; so Jarchi remarks,

``this which he should set in order after this section;''

as he does in the next chapter, where he repeats in order the ten precepts, and makes observations on the manner of the delivery of them, and urges obedience to them.

Deuteronomy 4:44 In-Context

42 [in order for] {a manslayer} to flee there [who] has killed his neighbor {without intent} and was not hating him {previously}, and [so] he could flee to one of these cities {and be safe}.

43 [He set apart] Bezer in the wilderness in the land of the plateau of the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead of the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan of the Manassites.

44 Now this [is] the law that Moses set {before} the {Israelites};

45 these are the legal provisions and the rules and the regulations that Moses spoke to the {Israelites} {when they left Egypt},

46 beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth Peor in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who [was] reigning in Heshbon [and] whom Moses and the {Israelites} defeated {when they came out of Egypt}.

Footnotes

• [a] Hebrew "the torah" = teaching, instruction, law
• [b] Literally "before the faces of"
• [c] Literally "sons/children of Israel"