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Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.
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A Representative Assembly
Commentators like John Calvin explain that when Moses summoned the "elders and your officers," he wasn't excluding the rest of Israel. This was the standard procedure for a national assembly. The leaders represented their tribes and families, and gathering them was the practical way to gather the entire nation to hear God's message.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Moses completes the writing of the Book of the Law, and directs that it be placed by the ark of the covenant.
The “book” referred to here wo…
19th Century
Anglican
Deuteronomy 31:24–28. DELIVERY OF THE BOOKS OF MOSES TO THE LEVITES.
When Moses had made an end of …
16th Century
Protestant
Gather to me all the elders of your tribes. Special reference is made here to the Song, which, we gather from the last verse, was recited …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers The heads of the trib…
The solemn delivery of the book of the law to the Levites, to be deposited in, or rather by the side of the ark, is again related. The song which f…
