14. What Does the Lord Your God Require of You?

We have now come to the end of Moses' postamble after he had reminded them of the Ten Words and stressed its importance. He also summed up the Ten Words in the shema which we have seen is the most important exhortation. That is why the shema was recited by the Jews and emphasised by Jesus Christ. Paul re-interpreted it in the context of the community struggles in writing to the Corinthians. Going on from there, the failures of the past generation of Israelites were highlighted by Moses so that this present generation would not repeat them.