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 4:15“When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it: but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting.
• Josh 3:3and they commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of Yahweh your God’s covenant, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then leave your place, and follow it.
• Dan 9:13As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us: yet have we not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in your truth.
• Num 33:2Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Yahweh. These are their journeys according to their goings out.
• John 1:17For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
• 1 Kgs 8:3All the elders of Israel came, and the priests picked up the ark.
• John 5:46For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.
• Mark 12:19“Teacher, Moses wrote to us, ‘If a man’s brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.’
• Luke 20:28They asked him, “Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man’s brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.
• Josh 6:12Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up Yahweh’s ark.
• Deut 31:22–26So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
• 1 Chr 15:2Then David said, “No one ought to carry God’s ark but the Levites. For Yahweh has chosen them to carry God’s ark, and to minister to him forever.”
• Mal 2:7For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.
• John 1:45Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
• Mark 10:4–5They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.”
• Deut 17:18It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites.
• 1 Chr 15:12–15and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, up to the place that I have prepared for it.
• Deut 31:28Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.
• Mal 4:4“Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.
• Josh 3:14–17When the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people,
• Hos 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

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