Moses’s Third Sermon: “Realizing We Too Were There at Sinai” (29:1–30:20)

Mosesopens his final sermon with words very similar to 1:1. Once again, Moses draws on recounting God’s works in the past (29:1–8) as the basis for the exhortation that follows (29:9–15). Though Moses begins by speaking of God in the third person (29:2, 4), in verse 5 the Lord speaks in the first person, thereby showing how the words of Moses and those of God blend into each other almost imperceptibly. A…