After the Israelites were come into the plains of Moab over against Jericho, and ready to enter into the Land of Promise, Moses to the former laws added divers others; which therefore are called Deuteronomy; that is, “second laws.” And are (as it is written Deut. 29:1), “the words of a covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel, besides the covenant which He made with them in Horeb.” For having explained those former laws, in the beginning of the Book of Deuteronomy, he addeth others, that begin at the 12th chapter, and continue to the end of the 26th of the same book. This law ( Deut. 27:3) they were commanded to write upon great stones plastered over, at their passing over Jordan: this law also was written by Moses himself in a book, and delivered into the hands of the “priests and to the elders of Israel” ( Deut. 31:9), and commanded (verse 26), “to be put in the side of the ark”; for in the ark itself was nothing but the “Ten Commandments.” This was the law which Moses ( Deut.