Deuteronomy 31:9

Moses writes down this law and entrusts it to the Levitical priests who carry the ark and to Israel's elders. It matters because God's revelation is preserved in writing and committed to responsible custodians.

Cross-references · 21

• Num 4:15When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy objects and all their equipment, as soon as the camp is ready to move, the Kohathites shall come and do the carrying. But they must not touch the holy objects, or they will die. These are the transportation duties of the Kohathites regarding the Tent of Meeting.
• Josh 3:3and commanded the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God being carried by the Levitical priests, you are to set out from your positions and follow it.
• Dan 9:13Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our iniquities and giving attention to Your truth.
• Num 33:2At the LORD’s command, Moses recorded the stages of their journey. These are the stages listed by their starting points:
• John 1:17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
• 1 Kgs 8:3When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the priests took up the ark,
• John 5:46If you had believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me.
• Mark 12:19“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brother’s widow and raise up offspring for him.
• Luke 20:28“Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brother’s widow and raise up offspring for him.
• Josh 6:12Joshua got up early the next morning, and the priests took the ark of the LORD.
• Deut 31:22–26So that very day Moses wrote down this song and taught it to the Israelites.
• 1 Chr 15:2Then David said, “No one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, because the LORD has chosen them to carry the ark of the LORD and to minister before Him forever.”
• Mal 2:7For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts.
• John 1:45Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law, the One the prophets foretold—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
• Mark 10:4–5They answered, “Moses permitted a man to write his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away.”
• Deut 17:18When he is seated on his royal throne, he must write for himself a copy of this instruction on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.
• 1 Chr 15:12–15And he said to them, “You are the heads of the Levitical families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves so that you may bring the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place I have prepared for it.
• Deut 31:28Assemble before me all the elders of your tribes and all your officers so that I may speak these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them.
• Mal 4:4“Remember the law of My servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him for all Israel at Horeb.
• Josh 3:14–17So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant ahead of them.
• Hos 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

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