Ulangan 31:25

31:25 he ¹  commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the Lord’s covenant,

Ulangan 31:9

The Deposit of the Covenant Text

31:9 Then Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the Levitical priests, who carry the ark of the Lord’s covenant, and to all Israel’s elders.

Ulangan 14:24

14:24 When he ²  blesses you, if the ³  place where he chooses to locate his name is distant,

Ulangan 28:32

28:32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it. ⁴ 

Ulangan 10:8

10:8 At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi ⁵  to carry the ark of the Lord’s covenant, to stand before the Lord to serve him, and to formulate blessings ⁶  in his name, as they do to this very day.

[31:25]  ¹ tn Heb “Moses.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[14:24]  ² tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “He” in 14:2.

[14:24]  ³ tn The Hebrew text includes “way is so far from you that you are unable to carry it because the.” These words have not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons, because they are redundant.

[28:32]  ⁴ tn Heb “and there will be no power in your hand”; NCV “there will be nothing you can do.”

[10:8]  ⁵ sn The Lord set apart the tribe of Levi. This was not the initial commissioning of the tribe of Levi to this ministry (cf. Num 3:11-13; 8:12-26), but with Aaron’s death it seemed appropriate to Moses to reiterate Levi’s responsibilities. There is no reference in the Book of Numbers to this having been done, but the account of Eleazar’s succession to the priesthood there (Num 20:25-28) would provide a setting for this to have occurred.

[10:8]  ⁶ sn To formulate blessings. The most famous example of this is the priestly “blessing formula” of Num 6:24-26.