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...Hidden Book in the Bible, Richard Elliot Friedman notes that there may have been two separate versions of the commandments: one ritual and one ethical. The ethical list is the one that we have become familiar with. The ritual version includes such commandments as "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice on anything leavened" and "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk...
...view the land from a distance, but you shall not enter it--the land that I am giving to the Israelite people...
...gradually becomes clear that the complaints of the Israelites are not subsiding. At one point they even whine that they are bored with manna. Ever more frequently, God culls their ungrateful ranks with fire or plague; and eventually he rules that they shall die of old age in the desert, and only their children, untainted by prior servitude, may attain the Promised Land...
...shall die on the mountain that you are about to ascend and shall be gathered to your kin, as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered...
...recap of Israelite history, an extraordinary catalog of law and ritual, and a near Shakespearean exhortation to the generation that will cross into Canaan. Here is an old man's blind bitterness--"The Lord was wrathful with me on your account"--and here his prophetic dictate: "Justice, justice, shall you pursue, that you may thrive and occupy the land that the Lord is giving...