Deuteronomy 33:15-2

(16 26). Five Laws Various

The subjects of these are not related. As to form, all are in the Sg. address (Steuern."s reasons for dividing them between his Sg. and Pl. authors are again inconclusive); and the first three (Deuteronomy 33:15-20) have negative openings similar to those of the group in Deuteronomy 33:1 (from which they are abruptly separated by Deuteronomy 33:9-14). In D or D's source they may have originally followed that group, in the feeling that as all three treat of relations with foreigners or foreign practices they had affinity with it. Steuern. thinks that Deuteronomy 33:15 f. fit Deuteronomy 22:8 in the code of his Sg. author. In addition to the negative openings there are possibly some cue-words. Escapedin Deuteronomy 33:15 is the same Heb. vb (but passive) as deliverin Deuteronomy 33:14; and vowin Deuteronomy 33:18 is soon followed by vowsin Deuteronomy 33:21-23.