Deuteronomy 31:26
Good News Translation
"Take this book of God's Law and place it beside the Covenant Box of the LORD your God, so that it will remain there as a witness against his people.

New Revised Standard Version
“Take this book of the law and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God; let it remain there as a witness against you.

Contemporary English Version
This is The Book of God's Law. Keep it beside the sacred chest that holds the agreement the LORD your God made with Israel. This book is proof that you know what the LORD wants you to do.

New American Bible
Take this book of the law and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD, your God, that there it may be a witness against you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Take this book, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God: that it may be there for a testimony against thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Take this book, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God: that it may be there for a testimony against thee.

in the side

1 Kings 8:9 Now in the ark there was nothing else but the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

2 Kings 22:8-11 And Helcias, the high priest, said to Saphan, the scribe: I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord: and Helcias gave the book to Saphan, and he read it. . . .

2 Chronicles 34:14,15 Now when they carried out the money that had been brought into the temple of the Lord, Helcias the priest found the book of the law of the Lord, by the hand of Moses. . . .

a witness

Deuteronomy 31:19 Now therefore write you this canticle, and teach the children of Israel: that they may know it by heart, and sing it by mouth, and this song may be unto me for a testimony among the children of Israel.

2 Kings 22:8,13-19 And Helcias, the high priest, said to Saphan, the scribe: I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord: and Helcias gave the book to Saphan, and he read it. . . .

Romans 3:19,20 Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be made subject to God. . . .

Galatians 2:19 For I, through the law, am dead to the law, that I may live to God; with Christ I am nailed to the cross.

Context
The Law Placed in the Ark
25He commanded the Levites, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying: 26Take this book, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God: that it may be there for a testimony against thee.27For I know thy obstinacy, and thy most stiff neck. While I am yet living, and going in with you, you have always been rebellious against the Lord: how much more when I shall be dead?…
Cross References
Exodus 25:16
And thou shalt put in the ark the testimony which I will give thee.

Deuteronomy 31:9
And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the ancients of Israel.

Deuteronomy 31:25
He commanded the Levites, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying:

Deuteronomy 31:27
For I know thy obstinacy, and thy most stiff neck. While I am yet living, and going in with you, you have always been rebellious against the Lord: how much more when I shall be dead?

1 Samuel 10:25
And Samuel told the people the law of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the Lord: and Samuel sent away all the people, every one to his own house.

1 Kings 8:21
And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the Lord, which he made with our fathers, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 31:25
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