Despite the Gospel of Matthew’s indebtedness to Israel’s scriptures, the paucity of διαθήκη (“covenant”) is striking. This paper addresses the silence by investigating the reception and intertextuality of Deuteronomy 29-30 in Matthew’s Gospel—a key text in Israelite restoration eschatology. I argue that two Matthean motifs—the function of divine/apocalyptic revelation and the description of the ἐκκλησία (“assembly”)—evoke and employ the conceptual grammar of Deut 29-30. Matthew’s stress on hearing, seeing, and knowing in response to apocalyptic/revelatory activity as well as the description of the ἐκκλησία epitomizes the language of covenantal renewal envisioned in Deut 29-30. In moving beyond direct quotations of Deuteronomy in Matthew’s Gospel, this paper advances discussions of Matthew’s relationship to διαθήκη and Deuteronomy to suggest that “the word” of the covenant is, despite appearances, “exceedingly near,” and essential to the contours of Matthew’s narratival and theological grammar of revelation and the people of God.