DEUTERONOMY 29 COMMENTARY EDITED BY GLENN PEASE Renewal of the Covenant 1 [a]These are the terms of the covenant the Lord commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb. BARNES, "This and the following chapter contain the address of Moses to the people on the solemn renewal of the covenant. Consult the marginal references for proof of historical statements or explanation of obscure words. CLARKE, "These are the words of the covenant - This verse seems properly to belong to the preceding chapter, as a widely different subject is taken up at Deu_ 29:2 of this; and it is distinguished as the 69th verse in some of the most correct copies of the Hebrew Bible. Commanded Moses to make - לכרתlichroth, to cut, alluding to the covenant sacrifice which was offered on the occasion and divided, as is explained, Gen_15:18 (note). Beside the covenant which he made - in Horeb - What is mentioned here is an additional institution to the ten words given on Horeb; and the curses denounced here are different from those denounced against the transgressors of the decalogue. GILL, "These are the words of the covenant,.... Not what go before, but follow after, in the next chapters, to the end of the book; in which are various promises of grace, and promises of good things, both with respect to Jews and Gentiles, intermixed with other things: which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab; or to declare unto them, and acquaint them with, they being now in the plains of Moab, ready to enter into the land of, Canaan: besides the covenant which he made with them at Horeb: or Sinai; which 1