Deuteronomy 6:1

Not a fresh title, marking the beginning of a separate discourse, but the natural continuation of the discourse from the previous ch. and still couched in the Pl.

And this is The conjunction not merely continues the discourse, but has an antithetic force, therefore not too strongly rendered nowby A.V. and R.V. What at that timein Ḥoreb was delivered to Moses himself (as described in Deuteronomy 5:31) he now in Moab proceeds to present.

this is the commandment, the statutes, and the judgements LXX these are the commandments, but Sam. confirms Heb., which is the more probable. Because this, not these, is used, and because the separate laws do not come till ch. 12, the words statutes and judgementsare regarded by some as an editorial intrusion. But this is not certain: thiswith three objects following, and two of them in the plural, is grammatically possible in Heb., and Moses was now about to declare to the people in Moab not only the Charge or Miṣwah, but the statutes and judgements as well. The point is not important. What is clear is that Miṣwah or Charge (see Deuteronomy 5:31) is the enforcement of general principles underlying the Law, which proceeds till the end of ch. 11. For after this discourse is finished, the title in Deuteronomy 12:1, where the separate laws at last begin, drops the term Miṣwah and reads only these are the statutes and the judgements. Cp. Westphal, Sources du Pent.ii. 111.

whither ye go over to possess it A formula distinctive of the Pl. passages occurring, besides here, Deuteronomy 4:14; Deuteronomy 11:8; Deuteronomy 11:11; whereas when the Sg. passages use the verb go overthey add the Jordan, Deuteronomy 9:1; Deuteronomy 30:18, but elsewhere prefer the equivalent phrase, the land whither thou art entering(or thou art entering the land), Deuteronomy 6:18; Deuteronomy 7:1; Deuteronomy 9:5; Deuteronomy 11:10; Deuteronomy 11:29; Deuteronomy 12:29; Deuteronomy 18:9; Deuteronomy 23:20; Deuteronomy 28:21; Deuteronomy 28:63; Deuteronomy 30:16. The only verse in which this phrase occurs with the Pl. Isaiah 4:5 b(q.v.); while Deuteronomy 4:1 (Pl.) gives a variation.