Old Song vs New Song | 144,000
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According to Deuteronomy 31:16-18, YHWH met with Moses and his nominated successor Joshua (Yehoshua) at the "tabernacle of meeting" and told them that after Moses' death, the people of Israel...
show moreDeuteronomy 32:1-43 contains the text of the Song.
The Song opens with an exordium (verses 1–3) in which heaven and earth are summoned to hear what the poet is to utter. In verses 4–6 the theme is defined: it is the rectitude and faithfulness of YHWH toward His corrupt and faithless people. Verses 7–14 portray the providence which conducted Israel in safety through the wilderness and gave it a rich and fertile land; verses 15–18 are devoted to Israel's unfaithfulness and lapse into idolatry. This lapse had compelled YHWH to threaten it (verses 19–27) with national disaster and almost with national extinction. Verses 28–43 describe how YHWH has determined to speak to the Israelites through the extremity of their need, to lead them to a better mind, and to grant them victory over their foes.
In a Torah scroll the song is written with a special layout, in two parallel columns.
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