Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 31:9 
ContextThe Deposit of the Covenant Text
31:9 Then Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the Levitical priests, who carry the ark of the Lord’s covenant, and to all Israel’s elders.
Deuteronomy 31:24-26
ContextAnticipation of Disobedience
31:24 When Moses finished writing on a scroll the words of this law in their entirety, 31:25 he 1 commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the Lord’s covenant, 31:26 “Take this scroll of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God. It will remain there as a witness against you,
1 tn Heb “Moses.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.
