In response to Yahweh’s call, Moses led Yahweh’s people out of Egypt, to Mount Sinai, through forty years of living in the wilderness, and finally to the very edge of the Promised Land. Sadly, Moses was to die before leading Yahweh’s people that last step across the Jordan River.
Not wanting to leave anything to chance or the Olympian gods, Moses chose, during his final days, to remind Yahweh’s people of all they had learned of Yahweh’s relationship to them and of theirs to Yahweh. He reminded them of Yahweh’s supremacy over all other gods and gave them a great confession of faith: “Hear, O Israel: Yahweh is our god, Yahweh alone” (Deuteronomy 6:4).