The Ten Commandments of Deuteronomy

There are places in Deuteronomy where Moses keeps talking about the past as something that is happening to us or to you rather than to them. This theme comes to a crescendo in chapter five when Moses introduces the 10 commandments. It's not just, it's a deliberate tying of this generation together with the past and he's doing it in rhetorically powerful way. The whole point of the 40 years of wandering is so that those at Horeb would now be dead and the new generation would take their place. You were there. God made this covenant with you with all of you here in our life today.