Book of Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy is a book of the HebrewHebrewA Northwest Semitic language in the Canaanite group, with ancient and modern forms.Glossary · Click to read the explanation TorahTorah / PentateuchGenesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy: Mosaic corpus with a compositional history. Torah can also mean teaching or law beyond these five books.Glossary · Click to read the explanation whose narrative presents laws through MosesMosesCentral figure in Exodus, Torah traditions and the Qur’an; childhood accounts differ in detail.Glossary · Click to read the explanation’ discourse. In 5:12–15 SabbathSabbath, the weekly rest daySacred seventh day in Jewish traditions, linked by commandments to household rest, creation and liberation.Glossary · Click to read the explanation rest includes dependants, animals and resident alienGēr: the Resident Outsider in Hebrew TextsA person living within an Israelite community; neither every foreigner nor a modern legal refugee category.Glossary · Click to read the explanation, grounded in memory of enslavement and departure from Egypt. ^[1]

This differs from ExodusBook of ExodusTorah book recounting Israel’s departure from Egypt and containing different formulations of seventh-day rest.Glossary · Click to read the explanation’s creation rationale. Comparing them illuminates interpretation within the texts; the difference alone does not date each formulation. ^[1][2]