The Reading of the Law

Deuteronomy 31

⁹ So Moses wrote this law _q and delivered it to the priests, the sons of Levi, _r who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel. ¹⁰ And Moses commanded them, saying: "At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the _s year of release, _t at the Feast of Tabernacles, ¹¹ "when all Israel comes to _u appear before the LORD your God in the _v place which He chooses, _w you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. ¹² _x "Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and the stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the LORD your God and carefully observe all the words of this law, ¹³ "and that their children, _y who have not known it, _z may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as you live in the land which you cross the Jordan to possess."

1. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 17:18
   Also it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book, from the one before the priests, the Levites.
   Deuteronomy 31:25
   That Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying:
   Deuteronomy 31:26
   Take this Book of the Law, and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there as a witness against you.
   
2. Cross References
   Numbers 4:5
   When the camp prepares to journey, Aaron and hi...
   Numbers 4:6
   Then they shall put on it a covering of badger ...
   Numbers 4:15
   And when Aaron and his sons have finished cover...
   Deuteronomy 10:8
   At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Le...
   Deuteronomy 31:25
   That Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ...
   Deuteronomy 31:26
   Take this Book of the Law, and put it beside th...
   Joshua 3:3
   And they commanded the people, saying, "When yo...
   
3. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 15:1
   At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release of debts.
   Deuteronomy 15:2
   And this is the form of the release: Every creditor who has lent anything to his neighbor shall release it; he shall not require it of his neighbor or his brother, because it is called the LORD's release.
   
4. Cross References
   Leviticus 23:34
   Speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the LORD.
   Deuteronomy 16:13
   You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, when you have gathered from your threshing floor and from your winepress.
   
5. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 16:16
   Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles; and they shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed.
   
6. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 12:5
   But you shall seek the place where the LORD your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His dwelling place; and there you shall go.
   
7. Cross References
   Joshua 8:34
   And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and the cursings, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law.
   2 Kings 23:2
   The king went up to the house of the LORD with all the men of Judah, and with him all the inhabitants of Jerusalem - the priests and the prophets and all the people, both small and great. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant which had been found in the house of the LORD.
   
8. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 4:10
   " especially concerning the day you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, 'Gather the people to Me, and I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.'
   
9. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 11:2
   Know today that I do not speak with your children, who have not known and who have not seen the chastening of the LORD your God, His greatness and His mighty hand and His outstretched arm -
   
10. Cross References
    Psalms 78:6
    That the generation to come might know them, The children who would be born, That they may arise and declare them to their children.
    Psalms 78:7
    That they may set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep His commandments.