The Reading of the Law

Deuteronomy 31

⁹ Then Moses _r wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, _s who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel. ¹⁰ And Moses commanded them, _t "At the end of every seven years, at the set time in the year of release, at _u the Feast of Booths, ¹¹ when all Israel comes _v to appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose, _w you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. ¹² _x Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, and be careful to do 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, _a as long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess."

1. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 17:18
   And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests.
   
2. Cross References
   Numbers 4:15
   And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry these, but they must not touch the holy things, lest they die. These are the things of the tent of meeting that the sons of Kohath are to carry.
   Joshua 3:3
   And commanded the people, "As soon as you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God being carried by the Levitical priests, then you shall set out from your place and follow it.
   Joshua 8:33
   And all Israel, sojourner as well as native born, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded at the first, to bless the people of Israel.
   1 Chronicles 15:15
   And the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the Lord.
   
3. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 15:1
   At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release.
   
4. Cross References
   Leviticus 23:34
   Speak to the people of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths to the Lord.
   
5. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 16:16
   Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. They shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed.
   Exodus 23:14
   Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me.
   Exodus 23:17
   Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God.
   Exodus 34:23
   Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.
   
6. Cross References
   Joshua 8:34 - 35
   And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law.
   2 Kings 23:2
   And the king went up to the house of the Lord, and with him all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the prophets, all the people, both small and great. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the Lord.
   Nehemiah 8:1 - 3
   And all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Water Gate. And they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the Lord had commanded Israel.
   
7. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 4:10
   How on the day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, 'Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.
   
8. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 11:2
   And consider today (since I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen it), consider the discipline of the Lord your God, his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm.
   
9. Cross References
   Psalms 78:5 - 6
   He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children.
   
10. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:10
    How on the day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, 'Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.