Deuteronomy 31:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

Ver. 11. Thou shalt read this law.] Which was nevertheless "read in their synagogues every Sabbath day." Act 15:21 And by this reading, at the feast of Tabernacles, every seventh year, the original copy written by Moses, they might perceive that those copies that they had amongst them were right and authentic. It was ill ordered in our English Bibles of the new translation, that between the printers' haste and correctors' oversight, such foul errors have been lately committed, as Judas printed for Jesus in the great Bible. The Turkish Koran is written and to be read in Arabic, under pain of death not to mistake a letter, a which is as easily done in this tongue as in any.

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Deuteronomy 31:11

11 When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.