The Reading of the Law
9 Then Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who mcarried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel. 10 And Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the set time in the year of nrelease, at the oFeast of Booths, 11 when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose, you shall pread this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12 Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, qand 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, rwho have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”
34 And afterward he read all the words of the law, lthe 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, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners who lived1 among them.
Josiah’s Reforms
1 jThen 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 he kread in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the Lord.
