when all Israel has come to appear before the LORD your God in the place which he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 11. Thou shalt. Septuagint “you shall read.” Josephus says, the high priest had to perform this office; while the Rabbins assert, that the chief magistrate, Moses, and his successors, the kings of Juda, had to read the law publicly. The princes did this in the court of the temple, designed for the women, as they also were bound to hear it. We find that Josias read aloud in the temple the words of the covenant, which have been lately discovered, 4 Kennicott. 23:2. Calmet.—But Esdras, a Levite, did the like; (1 Ezra 8:2,) and the command seems to be directed chiefly to the priests, from whose number Moses was not excluded. Psalms 98:6. Bible.