Deuteronomy 31:9

Moses wrote this law Besides Deuteronomy 31:24 the only statement to this effect in Deut.

this law Heb. Tôrah, see on Deuteronomy 1:5. In Deut. the Code (possibly with hortatory additions, but we cannot tell the exact extent of it here intended, see Deuteronomy 27:3) is called Tôrah only in Deuteronomy 1:5; Deuteronomy 4:8 (parallel to statutes and judgements), Deuteronomy 4:44 (a title); twice in the law of the King Deuteronomy 17:18 f., and nowhere else in chs. 5 26, but in chs. 27 31 no fewer than 14 times, 5 of which are within Deuteronomy 31:9-26, and in Joshua 1:8. This unequal distribution is very striking.

the priests the sons of Levi See on Deuteronomy 10:8; Deuteronomy 18:1. Steuern. takes the sons of Levias secondary, because omitted by LXX, but it is only LXX B which omits the phrase; LXX A and other Codd. have it.

which bare the ark, etc.] See on Deuteronomy 10:8.

the elders See on Deuteronomy 19:12. Marti omits the whole clause, the priests … covenant of the Lord, as a later substitute for the original Joshua; but if this theory be correct the rest, and unto all the elders of Israel, must also be secondary, since the imperatives in 11 f. are sing.