A Midrash taught that the words, “You are standing this day all of you before the Lord your God,” in should have been placed at the beginning of the Book of Deuteronomy, only the Torah does not follow chronological order. The Midrash likened this to the words, “I Kohelet have been King over Israel in Jerusalem,” in , which Rabbi Samuel the son of Rabbi Isaac said ought to have been written as a superscription at the beginning of the Book of Ecclesiastes, but is written in because the Torah does not follow a chronological order.