Deuteronomy 31:9
Good News Translation
So Moses wrote down God's Law and gave it to the levitical priests, who were in charge of the LORD's Covenant Box, and to the leaders of Israel.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Moses wrote down this law, and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.

Contemporary English Version
Moses wrote down all of these laws and teachings and gave them to the priests and the leaders of Israel. The priests were from the Levi tribe, and they carried the sacred chest that belonged to the LORD.

New American Bible
When Moses had written down this law, he gave it to the levitical priests who carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Moses

Deuteronomy 31:22-24,28 Moses therefore wrote the canticle, and taught it to the children of Israel. . . .

Numbers 33:2 Which Moses wrote down according to the places of their encamping, which they changed by the commandment of the Lord.

Daniel 9:13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: and we entreated not thy face, O Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and think on thy truth.

Malachi 4:4 Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, the precepts, and judgments.

Mark 10:4,5 Who said: Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce and to put her away. . . .

Mark 12:19 Master, Moses wrote unto us that if any man's brother die and leave his wife behind him and leave no children, his brother should take his wife and raise up seed to his brother.

Luke 20:28 Saying: Master, Moses wrote unto us: If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he leave no children, that his brother should take her to wife and raise up seed unto his brother.

John 1:17,45 For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. . . .

John 5:46 For if you did believe Moses, you would perhaps believe me also: for he wrote of me.

delivered

Deuteronomy 31:24-26 Therefore after Moses had wrote the words of this law in a volume, and finished it: . . .

Deuteronomy 17:18 But after he is raised to the throne of his kingdom, he shall copy out to himself the Deuteronomy of this law in a volume, taking the copy of the priests of the Levitical tribe,

the priests

Hosea 4:6 My people have been silent, because they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will reject thee, that thou shalt not do the office of priesthood to me: and thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

Malachi 2:7 For the lips of the priests shall keep knowledge, and they shall seek the law at his mouth: because he is the angel of the Lord of hosts.

which bare

Numbers 4:15 And when Aaron and his sons have wrapped up the sanctuary and the vessels thereof at the removing of the camp, then shall the sons of Caath enter in to carry the things wrapped up: and they shall not touch the vessels of the sanctuary, lest they die. These are the burdens of the sons of Caath: in the tabernacle of the covenant:

Joshua 3:3,14-17 And began to proclaim: When you shall see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests of the race of Levi carrying it, rise you up also, and follow them as they go before: . . .

Joshua 6:12 And Joshua rising before day, the priests took the ark of the Lord,

1 Kings 8:3 And all the ancients of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark,

1 Chronicles 15:2,12-15 Then David said: No one ought to carry the ark of God, but the Levites, whom the Lord hath chosen to carry it, and to minister unto himself for ever. . . .

Context
The Reading of the Law
9And 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.10And he commanded them, saying: After seven years, in the year of remission, in the feast of tabernacles,…
Cross References
Exodus 24:4
And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord: and rising in the morning, he built an altar at the foot of the mount, and twelve titles according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

Numbers 4:5
When the camp is; to set forward, Aaron and his sons shall go into the tabernacle of the covenant, and the holy of holies, and shall take down the veil that hangeth before the door, and shall wrap up the ark of the testimony in it,

Numbers 4:6
And shall cover it again with a cover of violet skins, and shall spread over it a cloth all of violet, and shall put in the bars.

Deuteronomy 10:8
At that time he separated the tribe of Levi, to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to stand before him in the ministry, and to bless in his name until this present day.

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

Deuteronomy 31:26
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.

Deuteronomy 33:10
Thy judgments, O Jacob, and thy law, O Israel: they shall put incense in thy wrath and holocaust upon thy altar.

Joshua 3:3
And began to proclaim: When you shall see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests of the race of Levi carrying it, rise you up also, and follow them as they go before:

1 Kings 8:3
And all the ancients of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark,

Nehemiah 8:2
Then Esdras the priest brought the law before the multitude of men and women, and all those that could understand, in the first day of the seventh month.

Deuteronomy 31:8
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