Deuteronomy 4

The chapter today largely was a recap of the ideas behind the Abrahamic covenant - that the Lord is the one true God, that He has selected the Israelites as His people, and that they were not to make or bow to any shape made by man or any part of creation. I especially like the affirmations of God's power and sovereignty, and the warnings that foretold of Israels fate should they disobey were (of course) a perfect prediction of what has happened throughout history to their people.

It looks like the end of this section is setting up the following passages to contain a more comprehensive review of the covenant and the laws that God gave to Moses. I wonder how much more of the book those will take up; perhaps 'deuteronomy' itself means something about law or covenant. Ah, indeed that is correct - Wikipedia indicates that the term is from the Greek and Latin for "second law".