Moses commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying,
When Moses had finished writing down in a book the words of this law to the very end,
“Take this book of the law and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God; let it remain there as a witness against you.
Then Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel.