The Reading of the Law

9 Then Moses ^rwrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, ^swho 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 ^uthe Feast of Booths, 11 when all Israel comes ^vto appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose, ^wyou shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12 ^xAssemble 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, ^ywho have not known it, ^zmay hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, ^aas long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”

34 And afterward ^fhe read all the words of the law, ^gthe blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law. 35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, ^hand the women, and the little ones, and ⁱthe sojourners who lived¹ among them.

Josiah’s Reforms

1 ^wThen the king sent, and all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem were gathered to him. 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 ^xhe read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant ^ythat had been found in the house of the Lord.