John Gill's Exposition on Deuteronomy 31:26

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Take this book of the law, etc.] 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 but the two tables of stone with the ten commands on them, (<110809>1 Kings 8:9); but on one side of it; the Targum of Jonathan says, it was “put in a chest (or box) on the right side of the ark of the covenant;” which is very probable. Jarchi observes, that the wise men of Israel are divided about it in the Talmud f566; some of them say there was a table (or ledge) that stood out from the ark without, and there it was put; others say it was put on the side of the tables of the law within the ark; the former are in the right: that it may be therefore a witness against thee; when they fall into idolatry or any other sin, a transgression of any of the laws therein contained.

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