Introduction
This portion of the discourse, from the twelfth chapter to the twenty-sixth, inclusive, is devoted to an exposition of the rules by which the people were to be directed in their religious, civil, and social interests. In this section are many particulars introduced that are only found in Deuteronomy. We should look for modifications of the earlier legislation. Nearly forty years have passed since the enactment of that code. A new generation, who are soon to have a settled abode, is before the great lawgiver. If we find additions and modifications it is no more than we should expect. The first verse of this chapter gives us to understand that the laws to be given are for their observance, not in the wilderness, but in “the land which Jehovah, God of thy fathers, giveth thee.”
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