The book of Deuteronomy is Moses’ final sermon before he dies; his Swan song. As the scene fades up from black on the opening page of Deuteronomy we see a 120 year old Moses standing in front of the children of the freed slaves. It has been 40 years since the people who had been miraculously delivered from Pharaoh’s hand had rebelled for the last time against God at Kadesh-Barnea. When the 10 spies said that they did not think the Israelites could defeat the “Anakites” (the giants) God punished their disbelief and made them wander in the desert for 40 years until every last adult of that generation had died off.

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