The word "Deuteronomy" means the second law, or the doubling or repetition, by Moses, of the law. It is the rehearsal of God's doings and of His law to Israel, before the man of God should lay down his work to another. It is the last book of the Pentateuch. It is worthy of note that when our Lord met the devil on the mount of temptation with weapons from the Word, every one was drawn from the book of Deuteronomy; and contrary to the Higher Critics, who place it as late as or later than Manasseh, Peter attributes the book to Moses. Acts 3:22, 23. Its time of writing was the eleventh month of the fortieth year. The second verse has a wonderful lesson. From Horeb Israel started for the Promised Land. Kadesh-barnea is on its very border. Eleven days' journey only, yet it took unbelieving Israel nearly forty years! The "Companion Bible" gives ten discourses of Moses as follows: (1) 1:6 to 4:40; (2) 5:1 to 10:5; (3) 10:10 to 12:32; (4) 13:1 to 26:19; (5) 27:1 to 28:68; (6) 29:2 to 30:20; (7) 31:2-6; (8) 32:1-43; (9) 32:44-47; (10) 33:2-29. The portions omitted in the above are narrative or introduction. The promise of verse 8 is mentioned twenty-seven times in Deuteronomy; but how could men understand it without Genesis? It is a book worthy of much study.