This is evidently an introduction to the discourse of the subsequent chapters. Moses having practically improved some particulars in the history of Israel, proceeded to repeat and enforce the laws which he had delivered before, with additions and explanations, beginning with the ten commandments.
Deuteronomy 1:5 On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses
to declare this law, saying,
Deuteronomy 17:18-
19 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom,
that he shall write him
a copy of this law in a book
out of [that which is] before the priests the Levites: ... And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:
Deuteronomy 27:3 And
thou shalt write upon them all the words of
this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee,
a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee.
Deuteronomy 27:8 And
thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law
very plainly.
Deuteronomy 27:26 Cursed [
be] he that
confirmeth not [
all] the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Deuteronomy 33:4 Moses commanded us a law, [
even]
the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.
Leviticus 27:34 These [
are] the
commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel
in mount Sinai.
Numbers 36:13 These [
are]
the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel
in the plains of Moab by Jordan [
near] Jericho.
Malachi 4:4 Remember ye
the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him
in Horeb for all Israel,
[with] the statutes and judgments.
John 1:17 For
the law was given by Moses, [
but]
grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.