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Chapter 27 deals with the means that they must use to help them to remember these statues and to keep them from becoming indifferent to them. He suggests that they be written upon tablets of stone and read aloud often in their hearing.
He has gone to great length to set before them their duty, both to God and to their fellowman and has shown them plainly what is good and acceptable before God. In the previous chapter, he described their obligation both to the command and to the covenant. Here he suggests some ways the will help remind them of this obligation.
He suggests that these laws be written on stone. They were not to be engraved into the stone, as we might think, but were to be cut into plaster that had been put upon rough hewed stone, done very plainly without garnish or polish. They were also to set up an altar of plain fieldstone beside the stone with the laws written upon them, for their Burnt Offerings and their Peace Offerings.
All of this was to be a constant reminder to them less they become indifferent and forget or consider them lightly in their new surroundings.
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