Deuteronomy is the fifth and final book of Moses. Moses, the man whom God chose to deliver his people from slavery in Egypt; Moses who, because of the disobedience of the people, guided them in their forty-year wilderness journey. Moses, in the last years of his life, is now addressing the people, as they stand at a pivotal moment in their history—the fulfillment of the promise made to Abraham, and renewed with his children.