Doctrine Analysis: Deuteronomy

Purpose

This document satisfies PRD Phase 1 Step 4: a full-book doctrine matrix spanning Deuteronomy 1–34, doctrine-consistent with doctrine_risk_registry.json. It supplies (1) a chapter-by-chapter coverage map so every chapter’s doctrinal content — or explicit absence of new content — is documented, and (2) the complete doctrine matrix (doctrine, supporting passages from Deuteronomy, risk level, translation risk description, review routing) for all 27 doctrines carried in the registry, of which the 8 named in the curriculum parameters (Shema/Exclusive Love, Covenant Renewal, Blessings and Curses, Remembering God’s Redemption, Obedience Motivated by Love not Merit, The Coming Prophet like Moses, Choosing Life over Death, Warnings against Idolatry) are the theological spine, and the remainder are load-bearing supporting doctrines this full-book mandate surfaces.

Risk tier definitions, review routing categories, and all named doctrines/tiers are inherited unchanged from doctrine_risk_registry.json. This document does not introduce new tiers or renamed doctrines; it extends the registry with chapter-level traceability and fuller translation-risk narrative.

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Part A — Chapter-by-Chapter Coverage Map

Ch.	Content Summary	Doctrines Active (registry keys)	Coverage Note
1	Historical prologue: journey from Horeb, spies, unbelief at Kadesh	inheritance_of_the_land, remembering_gods_redemption	Reviewed. Establishes narrative frame for later “remember” exhortations.
2	Wilderness itinerary; dealings with Edom, Moab, Ammon	inheritance_of_the_land, gods_sovereignty_over_life_and_death (God’s control of nations’ land grants)	Reviewed. Low new-vocabulary chapter; reinforces land-as-gift theme.
3	Conquest of Bashan; Moses forbidden to cross Jordan	inheritance_of_the_land	Reviewed. Sets up Moses/Joshua transition relevant to ch. 31, 34.
4	Exhortation to obey; warning against idol-making; God’s uniqueness; cities of refuge	warnings_against_idolatry, shema_exclusive_monotheism (4:35, 4:39 anticipate 6:4), covenant_renewal	Reviewed. Theological hinge chapter; first extended idolatry polemic.
5	Decalogue restated; covenant at Horeb; “not with our fathers but with us”	covenant_renewal, warnings_against_idolatry (5:7-9), remembering_gods_redemption (5:15)	Reviewed.
6	The Shema; exclusive love; teach diligently; signs/doorposts; remember redemption	shema_exclusive_monotheism, exclusive_love_for_god, intergenerational_transmission, remembering_gods_redemption, obedience_motivated_by_love_not_merit (6:25)	Core passage (6:1-9). Anchor chapter; highest-density Critical-risk cluster in the book.
7	Devotion to destruction; no intermarriage; election not by merit	holy_war_and_devotion_to_destruction, divine_election_of_israel	Reviewed. 7:7-8 is the book’s explicit anti-merit statement, load-bearing for obedience_motivated_by_love_not_merit.
8	Wilderness testing; “man does not live by bread alone”; warning against forgetting God in prosperity	remembering_gods_redemption, obedience_motivated_by_love_not_merit	Reviewed.
9	Golden calf; Moses’ forty-day intercession; “not for your righteousness”	mediatorial_intercession, obedience_motivated_by_love_not_merit (9:4-6 explicit denial of merit)	Reviewed.
10	Circumcise your heart; love the sojourner; fear the LORD	circumcision_of_the_heart, care_for_the_vulnerable, divine_election_of_israel (10:15)	Reviewed.
11	Blessing and curse set before Israel; love the LORD; teach children	blessings_and_curses_of_covenant, exclusive_love_for_god, intergenerational_transmission	Reviewed.
12	Centralized worship; destroy high places; “the place the LORD will choose”	centralized_worship, warnings_against_idolatry	Reviewed. First of 15+ occurrences of the fixed liturgical formula.
13	False prophets/dreamers enticing to idolatry	discernment_of_false_prophecy, warnings_against_idolatry	Reviewed.
14	Clean/unclean foods; tithe	ceremonial_purity, divine_election_of_israel (14:2)	Reviewed.
15	Sabbatical release of debts and slaves	sabbatical_release, remembering_gods_redemption	Reviewed.
16	Passover, Weeks, Booths; appointment of just judges	centralized_worship, civic_justice	Reviewed.
17	Judicial procedure; witnesses; law of the king	civic_justice, kingship_under_torah	Reviewed.
18	Priests’/Levites’ portion; the prophet like Moses	coming_prophet_like_moses	Reviewed. Central messianic-promise chapter.
19	Cities of refuge; boundary markers; two-or-three witnesses	civic_justice	Reviewed. No new theological vocabulary beyond established justice/refuge terms (per glossary note).
20	Rules of warfare; exemptions; holy war regulations	holy_war_and_devotion_to_destruction	Reviewed.
21	Unsolved murder; captive women; rebellious son; the one hanged on a tree	cursed_who_is_hanged_typology, civic_justice	Reviewed. 21:22-23 is the book’s single most consequential NT-dependency verse (Galatians 3:13).
22	Assorted mixed civil/ceremonial laws	(no new doctrine)	Reviewed — no new theological vocabulary beyond terms already catalogued (holiness, neighbor-love, civic justice already established).
23	Assorted mixed civil/ceremonial laws; assembly exclusions; vows	(no new doctrine)	Reviewed — no new theological vocabulary beyond terms already catalogued.
24	Divorce certificate; gleaning laws; care for sojourner/widow/orphan	care_for_the_vulnerable	Reviewed.
25	Levirate marriage; just weights and measures	civic_justice	Reviewed.
26	Firstfruits liturgical confession; tithe declaration	firstfruits_liturgical_confession, remembering_gods_redemption	Reviewed.
27	Covenant renewal ceremony at Ebal/Gerizim; curses recited	covenant_renewal, blessings_and_curses_of_covenant	Reviewed.
28	Extended blessings and curses	blessings_and_curses_of_covenant	Reviewed. Longest single doctrinal unit in the book; requires explicit grace-priority framing (see matrix below).
29	Covenant renewal at Moab; warning against secret idolatry	covenant_renewal, warnings_against_idolatry	Reviewed.
30	Choose life; the word is near; future circumcision of the heart (divine promise)	choosing_life_over_death, the_word_made_near, circumcision_of_the_heart	Reviewed. Theological climax chapter alongside ch. 6.
31	Moses commissions Joshua; public reading of the Law every seven years	intergenerational_transmission, covenant_renewal	Reviewed.
32	Song of Moses: the Rock; provoke to jealousy; God’s sovereignty over life/death	provoking_to_jealousy, gods_sovereignty_over_life_and_death, warnings_against_idolatry (32:16-21)	Reviewed. Contains two direct Romans 10 quotation dependencies.
33	Moses blesses the twelve tribes	(no new doctrine)	Reviewed — no new theological vocabulary beyond terms already catalogued (blessing, inheritance already established).
34	Death of Moses; “no prophet has arisen like Moses”	coming_prophet_like_moses (fulfillment marker)	Reviewed. Closes the messianic-promise arc opened in ch. 18.

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Part B — Full Doctrine Matrix

Risk tiers and review routing below are identical to doctrine_risk_registry.json; this matrix adds fuller translation-risk narrative for Phase 2 use.

Critical Risk (Human Theologian review required for every occurrence)

Doctrine	Supporting Passages (Deuteronomy)	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
The Shema and Exclusive Monotheism	6:4; 4:35; 4:39; 32:39	Critical	”Echad” (one/alone) must affirm exclusive divine uniqueness without either inviting a French Catholic reader to hear an anti-Trinitarian denial of plurality-in-unity, or losing the numerical “un” central to the verse’s daily liturgical recitation in both Jewish and Christian memory.	Human theologian
Exclusive Love for God	6:5; 10:12; 11:1,13,22; 30:6,16,20	Critical	French “aimer/amour” is sentimentalized in ordinary usage; must render total-life covenant allegiance (ANE treaty-loyalty idiom), not mere affection. “Cœur” and “âme” each risk losing whole-person Hebrew sense (levav = mind+will+emotion; nephesh = whole living self, not Cartesian soul).	Human theologian
Obedience Motivated by Love not Merit	6:25; 7:7-8; 8:17-18; 9:4-6; 10:12-16	Critical	6:25’s “it will be tzedaqah (righteousness/justice) for us” risks direct collision with the baseline’s Critical-risk forensic-righteousness doctrine (justification apart from works) if rendered without a framing note that obedience here follows a redemption already graciously given, not the reverse.	Human theologian
The Coming Prophet like Moses	18:15; 18:18-19; 34:10	Critical	Must not generalize to “a prophet of Moses’ type”; the book’s own trajectory (confirmed by Acts 3:22, 7:37) points to one climactic, unique figure. Low OT literacy among French readers requires explicit cross-referencing to avoid a “recurring prophetic office” misreading.	Human theologian
Choosing Life over Death	30:15-20; 11:26	Critical	”Choisis la vie” risks either (a) reading through secular French existentialist “choisir sa vie” autonomy tropes as self-determined salvation, or (b) collapsing into fatalism erasing genuine responsibility. Requires a mandatory grace/responsibility framing note.	Human theologian
The Curse of the One Hanged on a Tree	21:22-23	Critical	Direct exegetical source for Galatians 3:13’s substitutionary atonement doctrine. Must be rendered with awareness of this NT dependency and cross-checked against this pipeline’s Galatians 3:13 French rendering for exact-wording consistency.	Human theologian
The Accessibility of God’s Word (“the word is near”)	30:11-14	Critical	Paul quotes this nearly verbatim in Romans 10:6-8, reinterpreting “the word” as the gospel of Christ. French rendering must be cross-checked against this pipeline’s Romans 10:6-8 wording — a rare case of direct OT-to-fixed-NT-baseline lexical dependency.	Human theologian

High Risk (Human Theologian review required)

Doctrine	Supporting Passages (Deuteronomy)	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Covenant Renewal	5:2-3; 26:17-18; 27:1-26; 29:1; 29:14-15	High	The reciprocal-declaration formula (26:17-18) must preserve genuine mutuality of ratification without implying equal parties; French readers accustomed to institutional “l’Église” covenant-framing may miss the personal, bilateral-yet-asymmetric Sinai/Moab pattern.	Human theologian
Blessings and Curses of the Covenant	11:26-29; 27:15-26; 28:1-68; 30:1; 30:19	High	The length/severity of ch. 28’s curses risks either obscuring the prior grace-basis of the relationship, or being read moralistically as if French readers today stand under an identical works-covenant rather than the New Covenant in Christ. Requires explicit Mosaic-sanctions-vs-New-Covenant-assurance framing.	Human theologian
Warnings against Idolatry	4:15-28; 5:7-9; 6:14-15; 7:4-5; 12:2-3; 13:1-18; 27:15; 28:14; 32:16-21	High	France’s Catholic visual piety (statues, icons, crucifixes) creates live pastoral sensitivity; must clarify the polemic targets worship of manufactured rival-god images, not visual art per se. “Dieu jaloux” risks sounding petty in ordinary French without a covenantal-fidelity gloss.	Human theologian
Divine Election of Israel, Not by Merit	7:6-8; 10:15; 14:2; 26:18-19	High	Same collision risk as baseline election: French “élection” evokes competitive/democratic selection. 7:7-8’s explicit anti-merit clarification (“not because you were more in number”) must not be diluted.	Human theologian
Holy War and Devotion to Destruction	7:1-2; 7:16; 7:26; 13:15; 13:17; 20:1-18	High	Ethically sensitive given France’s colonial-military history and secular sensitivity to religiously-justified violence; requires historical framing distinguishing this bounded, historical conquest command from any general warrant for violence.	Human theologian
Civic Justice in the Gates	16:18-20; 17:8-13; 24:17; 25:1; 25:13-16	High	Civic-judicial “tzedeq” shares the French word “justice” with the baseline’s Critical forensic-salvation term; must be explicitly flagged so the civic sense (fair courts, honest judges) is not conflated with “la justice de Dieu” in Romans.	Human theologian
Circumcision of the Heart	10:16; 30:6	High	Direct conceptual/lexical ancestor of Romans 2:29; the shift from human command (10:16) to divine gracious promise (30:6) is theologically significant and must be preserved distinctly, with consistent rendering across both occurrences.	Human theologian
Discernment of False Prophets	13:1-18; 18:20-22	High	Even a prophet performing genuine signs must be rejected if leading toward idolatry — a sharper, capital-sanction register than the positive ch. 18 usage; French “prophète” requires elevated review here to avoid conflating the two registers.	Human theologian
Israel Provoked to Jealousy by the Nations	32:15-21	High	Directly quoted in Romans 10:19 regarding Gentile inclusion; French “rendre jaloux” must be checked against this pipeline’s Romans 10:19 rendering, a live concern given France’s significant Jewish community.	Human theologian

Medium Risk (Native Speaker review recommended)

Doctrine	Supporting Passages (Deuteronomy)	Risk	Translation Risk	Review Routing
Remembering God’s Redemption	5:15; 6:12; 7:18; 8:2,18; 9:7; 15:15; 16:3,12; 24:18,22; 26:5-10; 32:7	Medium	French “se souvenir” can read as passive nostalgia; must preserve zakhar’s active, formative, liturgically-enacted sense that shapes present ethics.	Native speaker
Care for the Sojourner, Widow, and Orphan	10:18-19; 14:29; 16:11,14; 24:17-22; 26:12-13; 27:19	Medium	French “étranger” carries contemporary immigration-debate connotations; must be taught as covenant-protection grounded in Israel’s own redemption memory, not a modern legal-status category.	Native speaker
Centralized, God-Chosen Worship	12:1-14,18,21,26; 14:23-25; 16:2,6-7,11,15-16; 26:2; 31:11	Medium	The fixed liturgical formula “le lieu que le SEIGNEUR choisira” must render identically at every one of 15+ occurrences to preserve its deliberate repetition and polemic against local “hauts lieux”.	Native speaker
Ceremonial Purity in Daily Life	14:3-21	Medium	French “pur/impur” must stay distinct from the baseline’s moral term sin/“péché”; this is ceremonial, not moral, category.	Native speaker
Sabbatical Year and Release of Debts	15:1-18; 31:10	Medium	A periodic institution reminding Israel its own redemption was by grace; connect to the book’s wider grace-not-merit theology rather than treating as isolated social legislation.	Native speaker
Kingship Under the Torah	17:14-20	Medium	The king is subject to, not above, Torah — background for messianic kingship; “roi” is lexically stable but the subordination point needs explicit framing to avoid a purely political reading.	Native speaker
Public Reading and Intergenerational Transmission of the Law	6:7; 6:20-25; 11:19; 31:10-13	Medium	French “enseigner” alone is too bland for shanan’s “sharpen/repeat until second nature” intensity; render “inculquer avec soin” to preserve all-of-life catechetical normativity.	Native speaker
God’s Sovereignty over Life and Death	32:4; 32:39	Medium	The divine title “le Rocher” should be capitalized as title, distinct from geological metaphor, connecting typologically to 1 Corinthians 10:4; frame as covenant reliability.	Native speaker
Moses’ Mediatorial Intercession	9:18-20; 9:25-29; 10:10	Medium	Root of the baseline’s intercession doctrine; must be distinguished from Catholic devotional intercession of the saints — Moses is a unique covenant mediator, a type fulfilled uniquely in Christ.	Native speaker
Firstfruits and Liturgical Confession of Redemption	26:1-11	Medium	Highlight the confession’s function as communal memory-formation, not merely an agricultural offering rite.	Native speaker
Inheritance and the Land as Covenant Gift	1:8; 1:38; 3:18-20; 4:21; 12:9-10; 19:10; 25:19; 26:1	Medium	French “héritage” must retain covenant-gift-held-in-trust sense, not mere conquered real estate; avoid purely military “conquérir” framing.	Native speaker

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Summary Counts

Tier	Count	Review Routing
Critical	7	Human theologian (every occurrence)
High	9	Human theologian
Medium	11	Native speaker
Low	0	—
Total doctrines	27	16 theologian-routed, 11 native-speaker-routed

This matrix is doctrine-consistent with assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json: identical doctrine set, identical risk tiers per doctrine, identical review routing. Any future Phase 2 update to a tier must be mirrored in both documents.

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Critical Risk Doctrines

The Shema and Exclusive Monotheism

French name: le Shema et le monothéisme exclusif
Key terms: Hear O Israel, the LORD is one, echad
Review routing: Human theologian

Rendering ‘echad’ as bare ‘un’ risks a French Catholic reader over-reading later Trinitarian debate into this text (wrongly hearing a denial of plurality-in-unity), while rendering it ‘unique’ risks losing the numerical ‘un’ inseparable from Jewish and Christian liturgical memory of the verse recited daily; both France’s Catholic majority and its significant Jewish community give this verse live, divergent theological weight.

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Exclusive Love for God

French name: l’amour exclusif pour Dieu
Key terms: love the LORD your God, heart, soul, might, ahav
Review routing: Human theologian

French ‘aimer/amour’ is heavily sentimentalized in ordinary usage and risks reducing a total-life covenant allegiance (Ancient Near Eastern treaty loyalty language) to mere feeling or preference; ‘cœur’ risks losing the willing/intellectual dimension of levav, and ‘âme’ risks importing a Cartesian body-soul dualism foreign to nephesh’s whole-person sense.

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Obedience Motivated by Love not Merit

French name: l’obéissance motivée par l’amour et non par le mérite
Key terms: it will be righteousness for us, not because you were more in number, love the LORD, obedience
Review routing: Human theologian

Deuteronomy 6:25’s ‘it will be tzedaqah (righteousness) for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment’ risks a direct works-righteousness misreading in tension with the baseline’s Critical-risk insistence that right-standing before God is a gift received by faith, not achieved by law-keeping (cf. baseline righteousness, imputed_righteousness); French ‘justice’ carries no built-in marker distinguishing covenant-fruit language from forensic salvation language, so every occurrence requires an explicit framing note that Israel’s obedience follows a redemption already graciously given, not the reverse.

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The Coming Prophet like Moses

French name: le prophète semblable à Moïse à venir
Key terms: a prophet like me, I will put my words in his mouth, no prophet has arisen like Moses
Review routing: Human theologian

Must not be rendered so as to suggest ‘a prophet of Moses’ general type,’ implying any future prophet qualifies; the book’s own trajectory (confirmed by Acts 3:22, 7:37) identifies one climactic, unique figure. French readers with low OT literacy need explicit cross-referencing to recognize this as a specific messianic promise rather than a generic statement about ongoing prophetic succession.

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Choosing Life over Death

French name: choisir la vie plutôt que la mort
Key terms: I have set before you life and death, choose life, blessing and curse
Review routing: Human theologian

The imperative ‘choisis la vie’ must neither imply salvation is achieved by autonomous human self-determination severed from grace (a live risk given secular French existentialist resonances with ‘choisir sa vie’), nor collapse into fatalism erasing genuine human responsibility; requires a mandatory theologian’s framing note balancing divine grace and human responsibility, comparable to the baseline’s handling of the election/effectual_calling tension.

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The Curse of the One Hanged on a Tree (Atonement Typology)

French name: la malédiction de celui qui est pendu au bois (typologie de l’expiation)
Key terms: cursed of God, hanged on a tree, shall not remain overnight
Review routing: Human theologian

Directly cited by Paul in Galatians 3:13 as the exegetical basis for substitutionary atonement doctrine; must be rendered with full awareness that this OT legal statute becomes, in NT usage, the explanation of the cross, and cross-checked against this pipeline’s existing or future Galatians 3:13 French rendering for exact-wording consistency.

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The Accessibility of God’s Word

French name: la proximité accessible de la parole de Dieu
Key terms: not too hard, not in heaven, the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart
Review routing: Human theologian

Paul quotes this passage nearly verbatim in Romans 10:6-8, reinterpreting ‘the word’ as the gospel of Christ; French rendering must be cross-checked for exact-wording consistency against this pipeline’s Romans 10:6-8 material, since this is a rare case where an OT passage’s French wording has a direct, textually demonstrable dependency on an already-fixed NT baseline rendering.

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High Risk Doctrines

Covenant Renewal

French name: le renouvellement de l’alliance
Key terms: covenant, this Torah, not with our fathers but with us, mutual declaration
Review routing: Human theologian

The reciprocal declaration formula (26:17-18) must preserve genuine mutuality of covenant ratification without implying equal parties, since God remains sovereign initiator; French readers accustomed to a purely institutional ‘l’Église’ framing of covenant may miss the personal, bilateral-yet-asymmetric character of the Sinai/Moab covenant renewal.

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Blessings and Curses of the Covenant

French name: les bénédictions et les malédictions de l’alliance
Key terms: blessing, curse, berakah, qelalah, arur, barukh
Review routing: Human theologian

The sheer length and severity of the curse section (28:15-68) risks, in French teaching material, either obscuring the prior grace-basis of the covenant relationship (these are sanctions upon an already-established gracious bond, not its ground) or being read moralistically as if French Catholic or Protestant readers today stand under an identical works-covenant arrangement rather than the New Covenant in Christ; requires explicit framing distinguishing Mosaic covenant sanctions from New Covenant assurance.

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Warnings against Idolatry

French name: les avertissements contre l’idolâtrie
Key terms: carved image, other gods, high places, jealous God
Review routing: Human theologian

France’s Catholic visual piety (statues, icons, crucifixes) creates a live pastoral sensitivity when rendering the polemic against ‘pesel’ (carved images); must clarify the text targets worship of manufactured rival-god images, not visual art per se. Separately, ‘Dieu jaloux’ (El qanna) risks sounding petty or insecure in ordinary French usage and requires a covenantal-fidelity gloss.

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Divine Election of Israel, Not by Merit

French name: l’élection divine d’Israël, non par mérite
Key terms: chosen, treasured possession, not because you were more in number, holy nation
Review routing: Human theologian

Same collision risk as the baseline’s election (‘élection’): French usage evokes a competitive, democratic, or merit-based selection process. Deuteronomy 7:7-8 explicitly denies any merit basis for God’s choice of Israel (‘not because you were more in number than any other people’), a pastorally valuable anti-merit clarification that must not be diluted in translation.

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Holy War and Devotion to Destruction

French name: la guerre sainte et la mise à part pour la destruction
Key terms: devote to destruction, cherem, do not fear
Review routing: Human theologian

One of the most ethically and pastorally sensitive doctrines in the book for a contemporary French audience, given both France’s colonial-military history and secular sensitivity to religiously-justified violence; requires careful historical framing distinguishing this bounded, historical conquest command from any general warrant for religious violence, to avoid both trivializing the text and inviting its misuse.

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Civic Justice in the Gates

French name: la justice civile aux portes de la ville
Key terms: justice justice you shall pursue, just judges, fair weights and measures
Review routing: Human theologian

Civic-judicial ‘tzedeq’ shares the same French word ‘justice’ as the baseline’s Critical-risk forensic salvation-righteousness term; teaching material must explicitly flag the distinction so the civic sense (fair courts, honest judges) is not conflated with, nor confused for, ‘la justice de Dieu’ developed in Romans.

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Circumcision of the Heart

French name: la circoncision du cœur
Key terms: circumcise your heart, the LORD will circumcise your heart
Review routing: Human theologian

Direct conceptual and lexical ancestor of Paul’s ‘circoncision du cœur’ (Romans 2:29); the shift from human command (10:16) to divine gracious promise (30:6) is theologically significant and must be preserved distinctly across both occurrences, with consistent rendering so a French reader recognizes the deliberate callback.

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Discernment of False Prophets

French name: le discernement des faux prophètes
Key terms: prophet or dreamer of dreams, entice secretly, signs and wonders
Review routing: Human theologian

Even a prophet performing genuine signs must be rejected if he leads Israel toward idolatry — a doctrinally sharper, capital-sanction context than the baseline’s general Low-risk prophet entry; French ‘prophète’ here requires elevated theologian review distinct from the positive usage in chapter 18’s messianic promise, to avoid conflating the two registers.

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Israel Provoked to Jealousy by the Nations

French name: Israël rendu jaloux par les nations
Key terms: they have provoked me to jealousy, I will provoke them to jealousy, no god
Review routing: Human theologian

Directly quoted by Paul in Romans 10:19 regarding Gentile inclusion provoking Israel to jealousy; French rendering of ‘rendre jaloux’ must be checked against this pipeline’s Romans 10:19 material to preserve the quotation’s recognizability across Testaments, a live concern given France’s significant Jewish community and the doctrine’s bearing on Jewish-Gentile relations.

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Medium Risk Doctrines

Remembering God’s Redemption

French name: se souvenir de la rédemption de Dieu
Key terms: remember, forget, house of slavery, mighty hand and outstretched arm, redeem
Review routing: Native speaker review

French ‘se souvenir’ can read as passive, sentimental nostalgia; the Hebrew zakhar denotes active, formative, liturgically-enacted memory that shapes present ethical conduct (e.g. care for the sojourner, widow, and orphan flows directly from remembering slavery in Egypt) — this active-formative sense must be preserved consistently.

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Care for the Sojourner, Widow, and Orphan

French name: le soin envers l’étranger, la veuve et l’orphelin
Key terms: sojourner, widow and orphan, gleaning, love the sojourner
Review routing: Native speaker review

French ‘étranger’ carries strong contemporary immigration-debate connotations in political discourse; this doctrine must be taught explicitly as covenant-protection grounded in Israel’s own redemption memory (10:19), not conflated with a modern legal-status or immigration-policy category.

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Centralized, God-Chosen Worship

French name: le culte centralisé au lieu choisi par Dieu
Key terms: the place the LORD will choose, high places, one sanctuary
Review routing: Native speaker review

The recurring fixed liturgical formula ‘le lieu que le SEIGNEUR choisira’ must be rendered identically at every occurrence throughout the book (15+ instances); inconsistent French wording across chapters would obscure the formula’s deliberate liturgical repetition and its polemic against local syncretistic ‘hauts lieux’.

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Ceremonial Purity in Daily Life

French name: la pureté cérémonielle dans la vie quotidienne
Key terms: clean, unclean, dietary law
Review routing: Native speaker review

French ‘pur/impur’ must be kept distinct from the baseline’s moral term sin (‘péché’); this is a ceremonial, not moral, category, and conflating the two would distort both this text and later NT discussions of food laws (Mark 7, Acts 10, Romans 14).

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Sabbatical Year and Release of Debts

French name: l’année sabbatique et la remise des dettes
Key terms: release, shemittah, open your hand, release of Hebrew slaves
Review routing: Native speaker review

A periodic, structural institution reminding Israel that its own redemption from slavery was by grace, not merit; French teaching material should connect this concrete economic practice to the wider grace-not-merit theology of the book rather than treating it as isolated social legislation.

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Kingship Under the Torah

French name: la royauté soumise à la Loi
Key terms: king, he shall write for himself a copy of this law, not multiply horses or wives or silver and gold
Review routing: Native speaker review

The king is subject to, not above, the Torah — significant background for later messianic kingship theology (the true King who perfectly keeps the Torah); the term ‘roi’ itself is stable in French, but the theological point requires explicit framing to avoid a purely political reading.

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Public Reading and Intergenerational Transmission of the Law

French name: la lecture publique et la transmission intergénérationnelle de la Loi
Key terms: teach diligently, when your son asks you, read this law before all Israel
Review routing: Native speaker review

French ‘enseigner’ alone is too bland for the Hebrew shanan’s ‘sharpen/repeat until second nature’ intensity; render as ‘inculquer avec soin’ to preserve the all-of-life, intergenerational catechetical pattern the text establishes as normative household practice, not confined to formal cultic settings.

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God’s Sovereignty over Life and Death

French name: la souveraineté de Dieu sur la vie et la mort
Key terms: I kill and I make alive, the Rock, no god besides me
Review routing: Native speaker review

The divine title ‘le Rocher’ should be capitalized as a title distinct from ordinary usage, and connects typologically to 1 Corinthians 10:4; French readers need this epithet framed as covenant reliability, not merely geological metaphor.

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Moses’ Mediatorial Intercession

French name: l’intercession médiatrice de Moïse
Key terms: Moses interceded, forty days and forty nights, lest you destroy them
Review routing: Native speaker review

Direct Old Testament root of the baseline’s intercession doctrine (Medium risk); must be distinguished from the Catholic devotional practice of intercession of the saints — Moses functions here as a unique covenant mediator, a type later fulfilled uniquely in Christ, not as one intercessor among many venerated figures.

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Firstfruits and Liturgical Confession of Redemption

French name: les prémices et la confession liturgique de la rédemption
Key terms: firstfruits, a wandering Aramean was my father, recited before the LORD
Review routing: Native speaker review

This liturgical confession is the book’s clearest embodiment of worship structured around rehearsed salvation-history; French teaching material should highlight the confession’s function as communal memory-formation, not merely as an agricultural offering rite.

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Inheritance and the Land as Covenant Gift

French name: l’héritage et le pays comme don de l’alliance
Key terms: inheritance, possess the land, rest
Review routing: Native speaker review

French ‘héritage’ must retain the sense of covenant gift held in trust across generations, not mere real estate acquired by conquest; avoid a purely military ‘conquérir’ framing, which would lose the inheritance/gift sense this curriculum’s doctrine of grace requires.