The midrash paraphrases Moses’ speech to the people in a strikingly emotional tone. No longer is Moses the authority figure who commands obedience to “all the words of this teaching (torah),” but a suppliant who implores the people not only to maintain the “words of Torah” after his impending death themselves, but to beseech their children to do the same.
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