moses was speaking in the book of deuteronomy.
who is speaking in the book of deuteronomy?
moses
deuteronomy occupies a puzzling position in the bible, linking the story of the israelites' wanderings in the wilderness to the story of their history in canaan without quite belonging totally to either. the wilderness story could end quite easily with numbers, and the story of joshua's conquests could exist without it, at least at the level of the plot; but in both cases there would be a thematic (theological) element missing. scholars have given various answers to the problem. the deuteronomistic history theory is currently the most popular (deuteronomy was originally just the law code and covenant, written to cement the religious reforms of josiah, and later expanded to stand as the introduction to the full history); but there is an older theory which sees deuteronomy as belonging to numbers, and joshua as a sort of supplement to it. this idea still has supporters, but the mainstream understanding is that deuteronomy, after becoming the introduction to the history, was later detached from it and included with genesis-exodus-leviticus-numbers because it already had moses as its central character. according to this hypothesis, the death of moses was originally the ending of numbers, and was simply moved from there to the end of deuteronomy.
book of deuteronomy
bullet::::- ordering the restoration of lost property once found, at deuteronomy 22:1-4









































bullet::::- prohibition of mixing kinds, at deuteronomy 22:9-11









































bullet::::- concerning tzitzit, at deuteronomy 22:12









































bullet::::- against marrying a step-mother, at deuteronomy 22:30









































bullet::::- against usury, at deuteronomy 23:19-20









































bullet::::- concerning vows, at deuteronomy 23:21-23









































bullet::::- concerning pledges, at deuteronomy 24:6, and 24:10-13









































bullet::::- concerning leprosy, at deuteronomy 24:8-9









































bullet::::- concerning the wages of a hired servant, at deuteronomy 24:14-15









































bullet::::- ordering justice towards strangers, widows, and orphans, at deuteronomy 24:17-18









































bullet::::- concerning the scraps of crops, at deuteronomy 24:19-22
deuteronomic code