Deuteronomy 31:26

Complete Jewish Bible

"Take this book of the Torah and put it next to the ark with the covenant of Adonai your God, so that it can be there to witness against you.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Take this book of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God so that it may remain there as a witness against you.

Hebrew Names Version
Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.

King James Version
Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.

Lexham English Bible
"Take the scroll of this law and put it at the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, and it will be there as a witness against you.

English Standard Version
"Take this Book of the Law and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.

New Century Version
He said, "Take this Book of the Teachings and put it beside the Ark of the Agreement with the Lord your God. It must stay there as a witness against you.

New English Translation
"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,

Amplified Bible
"Take this Book of the Law and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, so that it may remain there as a witness against you.

New American Standard Bible
"Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, so that it may remain there as a witness against you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Take the booke of this Lawe, and put ye it in the side of the Arke of the couenant of the Lorde your God, that it may be there for a witnes against thee.

Legacy Standard Bible
"Take this book of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, that it may be there as a witness against you.

Contemporary English Version
This is The Book of God's Law. Keep it beside the sacred chest that holds the agreement the Lord your God made with Israel. This book is proof that you know what the Lord wants you to do.

Darby Translation
Take this book of the law, and put it at the side of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee;

Easy-to-Read Version
"Take this Book of Teachings and put it by the side of the Box of the Agreement of the Lord your God. Then it will be a witness against you.

George Lamsa Translation
Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there as a witness against you.

Good News Translation
"Take this book of God's Law and place it beside the Covenant Box of the Lord your God, so that it will remain there as a witness against his people.

Literal Translation
Take this book of the Law, and you shall put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, so that it may be there for a witness against you.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Take the boke of this lawe, and laye it by the syde of the Arke of the couenaunt of the LORDE youre God, that it maye be there a wytnesse agaynst the:

American Standard Version
Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.

Bible in Basic English
Take this book of the law and put it by the ark of the Lord's agreement, so that it may be a witness against you.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Take ye the booke of this lawe, and put it in the syde of the arke of the couenaunt of the Lorde your God, that it may be there for a witnesse agaynst thee.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.

King James Version (1611)
Take this booke of the Law, and put it in the side of the Arke of the Couenant of the Lord your God, that it may bee there for a witnesse against thee.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Take the book of this law, and ye shall put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God; and it shall be there among you for a testimony.

English Revised Version
Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.

Berean Standard Bible
"Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, so that it may remain there as a witness against you.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and seide, Take ye this book, and putte ye it in the side of the arke of boond of pees of youre Lord God, that it be there ayens thee in to witnessyng.

Young's Literal Translation
`Take this Book of the Law, and thou hast set it on the side of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, and it hath been there against thee for a witness;

Update Bible Version
Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.

World English Bible
Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.

New King James Version
"Take this Book of the Law, and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there as a witness against you;

New Living Translation
"Take this Book of Instruction and place it beside the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord your God, so it may remain there as a witness against the people of Israel.

New Life Bible
"Take this book of the Law and put it beside the special box of the Law of the Lord your God. It will be there to speak against you.

New Revised Standard
"Take this book of the law and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God; let it remain there as a witness against you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Take this scroll of the law, and put it at the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, - so shall it be there in thy midst as a witness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Revised Standard Version
"Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Take this book of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may remain there as a witness against you.

Contextual Overview

²² So Moshe wrote this song that same day and taught it to the people of Isra'el. ²³ Adonai also commissioned Y'hoshua the son of Nun with these words: "Be strong and full of courage; for you are to bring the people of Isra'el into the land about which I swore to them; and I will be with you." ²⁴ Moshe kept writing the words of this Torah in a book until he was done. When he had finished, ²⁵ (LY: vii) Moshe gave these orders to the L'vi'im who carried the ark with the covenant of Adonai : ²⁶ "Take this book of the Torah and put it next to the ark with the covenant of Adonai your God, so that it can be there to witness against you. ²⁷ For I know how rebellious and stiffnecked you are! Here, even while I am still alive with you today, you have rebelled against Adonai ; so how much more will you do so after my death? ²⁸ (Maftir) Assemble for me all the leaders of your tribes and your officials, so that I can say these things in their hearing, calling heaven and earth to witness against them — ²⁹ because I know that after my death you will become very corrupt and turn aside from the way that I have ordered you, and that disaster will come upon you in the acharit-hayamim, because you will do what Adonai sees as evil and provoke him by your deeds." ³⁰ Then Moshe spoke in the hearing of the whole assembly of Isra'el the words of this song, from beginning to end: Haftarah Vayelekh: Hoshea (Hosea) 14:2(1)–10(9); Mikhah (Micah) 7:18–20; Yo'el (Joel) 2:15–27 B'rit Hadashah suggested reading for Parashah Vayelekh: Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 13:5–8

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in the side: 1 Kings 8:9, 2 Kings 22:8-11, 2 Chronicles 34:14, 2 Chronicles 34:15

a witness: Deuteronomy 31:19, 2 Kings 22:8, 2 Kings 22:13-19, Romans 3:19, Romans 3:20, Galatians 2:19

Reciprocal: Genesis 31:44 - a witness Exodus 25:16 - General Numbers 10:33 - the ark Deuteronomy 17:18 - out of that which Joshua 3:14 - bearing the ark Joshua 24:27 - General 1 Samuel 4:3 - the ark 1 Kings 8:21 - the covenant 2 Kings 23:2 - the book 1 Chronicles 15:29 - as the ark

Cross-References

Genesis 2:24
This is why a man is to leave his father and mother and stick with his wife, and they are to be one flesh.

Genesis 3:13
Adonai , God, said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman answered, "The serpent tricked me, so I ate."

Genesis 4:10
He said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground!

Genesis 12:18
Pharaoh called Avram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

Genesis 26:10
Avimelekh said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"

Genesis 31:9
This is how God has taken away your father's animals and given them to me.

Genesis 31:10
Once, when the animals were mating, I had a dream: I looked up and there in front of me the male goats which mated with the females were streaked, speckled and mottled.

Genesis 31:16
Nevertheless, the wealth which God has taken away from our father has become ours and our children's anyway; so whatever God has told you to do, do."

Genesis 31:36
Then Ya‘akov became angry and started arguing with Lavan. "What have I done wrong?" he demanded. "What is my offense, that you have come after me in hot pursuit?

Genesis 34:29
everything they owned. Their children and wives they took captive, and they looted whatever was in the houses.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Take this book of the law,.... Not Deuteronomy only, but the whole Pentateuch:

and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God; not in the ark, for there were nothing there but the two tables of stone with the ten commands on them, 1 Kings 8:9; but on one side of it; the Targum of Jonathan says, it was

"put in a chest (or box) on the right side of the ark of the covenant;''

which is very probable. Jarchi observes, that the wise men of Israel are divided about it in the Talmud e; some of them say there was a table (or ledge) that stood out from the ark without, and there it was put; others say it was put on the side of the tables of the law within the ark; the former are in the right:

that it may be therefore a witness against thee; when they fall into idolatry or any other sin, a transgression of any of the laws therein contained.

e T. B. Bava Bathra, fol. 14. 1. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Moses completes the writing out of the book of the Law, and directs it to be placed by the ark of the covenant.

Deuteronomy 31:24

The “book” here spoken of would contain the whole Pentateuch up to this verse, and be “the Book of Moses,” called generally by the Jews “the Law” (compare Matthew 22:40; Galatians 4:21).

Deuteronomy 31:25

The Levites, which bare the ark - i. e., as in Deuteronomy 31:9, “the priests the sons of Levi.” The non-priestly Levites could not so much as enter the sanctuary or touch the ark (compare Numbers 4:15). Though in the journeys through the wilderness the ark was borne by the non-priestly Kohathites, yet on occasions of a more solemn and public character it was carried by the priests themselves (Joshua 3:3 ff, Joshua 4:9-10; Joshua 6:6, Joshua 6:12; Joshua 8:33; 1 Kings 8:3).

Deuteronomy 31:26

Put it in the side of the ark - Rather, by the side of the ark. The two tables of the Decalogue were in the ark 1 Kings 8:9; the Book of the Law was to be laid up in the holy of holies close by the ark of the covenant, probably in a chest. Compare 2 Kings 22:8.

Deuteronomy 31:27

How much more after my death - Hence, Deuteronomy 31:24 and the rest of the book (with the exception of the song, Deuteronomy 31:19) must be regarded as a kind of appendix added after Moses’ death by another hand; though the Blessing Deuteronomy 33:0 is of course to be regarded as a composition of Moses.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 31:26. Take this book of the law — The standard copy to which all transcripts must ultimately refer: another copy was put into the bands of the priests. Deuteronomy 31:9; Deuteronomy 31:9.