Deuteronomy 31:25

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…

Moses completes the writing out of the book of the Law, and directs it to be placed by the ark of the covenant. Deu 31:24 The “book” here spoken of would contain the whole Pentateuch up to this verse,…

Here, I. The charge is given to Joshua, which God has said (v. 14) he would give him. The same in effect that Moses had given him. The same in effect that Moses had given him (v. 7): Be strong and of…

the Levites which bare, etc.] See on Deu 31:31; Deu 10:8; Deu 17:18. These cannot be P's Levites, who could not enter the Holy of Holies where the Ark lay. On the Ark of the Covenantsee note on Deu…