The book of Deuteronomy begins on the first day of the eleventh month of the fortieth year. Moses will call the people together a few times and remind them of their journey through the wilderness, their sinfulness, God's faithfulness, and the instructions God set before them. At the end of this book, Moses will die. The best we can tell is that all but the last couple of verses cover about a month. In the final moments of Deuteronomy, the people will mourn for Moses for 30 days. It is helpful for us to keep in mind that this entire book is a series of farewell statements made by Moses before he died and the people moved into the Promised Land. I think it's hard for us to think of 34 chapters covering a mere thirty days when the first six chapters of Genesis covered 1656 years. Imagine this as a deathbed declaration, though Moses' strength was unabated and his vigor unimpaired...