Deuteronomy and Divine-Human Communication

(10) The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

(10) And ה׳ gave me the two tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God, with the exact words that ה׳ had addressed to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the Assembly.

(4) Face to face ה׳ spoke to you on the mountain out of the fire—

(11) ה׳ would speak to Moses face to face, as one person speaks to another...

(13) And they did so. Aaron held out his arm with the rod and struck the dust of the earth... all the dust of the earth turned to lice... (14) The magicians did the like with their spells to produce lice, but they could not...

(15) Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God!” ...

(6) Ten things were created on the eve of the Sabbath at twilight, and these are they: [1] the mouth of the earth, [2] the mouth of the well, [3] the mouth of the donkey, [4] the rainbow, [5] the manna, [6] the staff [of Moses], [7] the shamir, [8] the letters, [9] the writing, [10] and the tablets...

(12) And if you do obey these rules and observe them carefully, your God ה׳ will maintain faithfully for you the covenant made on oath with your fathers: (13) [God] will favor you and bless you and multiply you—blessing your issue from the womb and your produce from the soil, your new grain and wine and oil, the calving of your herd and the lambing of your flock...

(10) For the land that you are about to enter and possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come. There the grain you sowed had to be watered by your own labors, like a vegetable garden; (11) but the land you are about to cross into and possess, a land of hills and valleys, soaks up its water from the rains of heaven. (12) It is a land which your God ה׳ looks after, on which your God ה׳ always keeps an eye, from year’s beginning to year’s end.

(13) If, then, you obey the commandments...(14) I will grant the rain for your land in season

AND IF NOT..

(17) The LORD's anger will flare up against you, shutting up the skies so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its produce...

(5) Bear in mind that your God ה׳ disciplines you just as a father disciplines his son.

(3) [God] subjected you to the hardship of hunger and then gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your ancestors had ever known, in order to teach you that a human being does not live on bread alone, but that one may live on anything that ה׳ decrees. (4) The clothes upon you did not wear out, nor did your feet swell these forty years.

(6) And Saul inquired of the LORD, but the LORD did not answer him, either by dreams or by Urim, or by prophets.

(12) He had a dream; a stairway was set on the ground and its top reached to the sky, and angels of God were going up and down on it.

(17) Shaken, he said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the abode of God, and that is the gateway to heaven.”

(19) He named that site Bethel...

(10) Let no one be found among you who consigns a son or daughter to the fire, or who is an augur, a soothsayer, a diviner, a sorcerer, (11) one who casts spells, or one who consults ghosts or familiar spirits, or one who inquires of the dead... (14) Those nations that you are about to dispossess do indeed resort to soothsayers and augurs; to you, however, your God ה׳ has not assigned the like.

(15) From among your own people, your God ה׳ will raise up for you a prophet like myself; that is whom you shall heed. (16) This is just what you asked of your God ה׳ at Horeb, on the day of the Assembly, saying, “Let me not hear the voice of my God ה׳ any longer or see this wondrous fire any more, lest I die.” (17) Whereupon ה׳ said to me, “They have done well in speaking thus. (18) I will raise up for them from among their own people a prophet like yourself, in whose mouth I will put My words and who will speak to them all that I command;

(10) Never again did there arise in Israel a prophet like Moses—whom ה׳ singled out, face to face, (11) for the various signs and portents that ה׳ sent him to display in the land of Egypt...

(12) On that same day, when they ate of the produce of the land, the manna ceased. The Israelites got no more manna; that year they ate of the yield of the land of Canaan.

(8) Hezekiah asked Isaiah, “What is the sign that GOD will heal me ...

(11) So the prophet Isaiah called to GOD, and the shadow that had descended on the dial was made to recede ten steps.

(4) ...He also broke into pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until that time the Israelites had been offering sacrifices to it; it was called Nehushtan.

(63) [The questionable priests were ordered] not to eat of the most holy things until a priest with Urim and Thummim should appear.

(11) and the priests were not able to remain and perform the service because of the cloud, for the Presence of the LORD filled the House of GOD—

(2) GOD appeared to Solomon a second time... (3) GOD said to him, “I have heard the prayer and the supplication that you have offered to Me. I consecrate this House that you have built and I set My name there forever. My eyes and My heart shall ever be there.

(2) Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber at Samaria and was injured...

(3) An angel of GOD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Go and confront the messengers of the king of Samaria and say to them...

(4) Thus said the LORD: You shall not rise from the bed you are lying on, but you shall die.’” And Elijah went.

(22) Remember the Torah of My servant Moses, whom I charged at Horeb with laws and rules for all Israel. (23) Lo, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before the coming of the awesome, fearful day of the LORD.

The Sages taught: After the last of the prophets, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, died, the Divine Spirit of prophetic revelation departed from the Jewish people. But nevertheless, they were still utilizing a Divine Voice, which they heard as a kind of echo of prophecy.

... he was the Alexander of Macedonia that ruled twelve years. Up until that time there were prophets who prophesied by the holy spirit; from that time forth “Incline your ear and listen to the words of the sages.” (Proverbs 22:17)

These curses in Leviticus are stated in the plural, and Moses pronounced them from the mouth of the Almighty. As such, they are more severe. However, these curses in Deuteronomy are stated in the singular, and Moses said them on his own, like the rest of the book of Deuteronomy. They are therefore less harsh.