We are told to read the book of the law during the Feast of Tabernacles every seventh year.

Deu 31:10  And Moses commanded them, saying: At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of release, at the Feast of Tabernacles,

Deu 31:11  when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

Should we read the book of the law every year during the feast? Why? As mentioned in the Feast of Tabernacles article, we love this book and we can learn a lot from it every feast.

What is the book of the law? Nearly all Bibles will say in the title (not in scripture) that the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy are the books of the law or the books of Moses. Where we have sighted mainly Deuteronomy in this article the book of Leviticus is also read on the Feast of Trumpets.

When Moses said in Deuteronomy 31 verse 11, you shall read this law before all Israel was he referring to the first five books of the Bible or only the book of Deuteronomy?

The following scriptures will help with this question

Jos 8:31  as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: an altar of whole stones over which no man has wielded an iron tool. And they offered on it burnt offerings to the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.

So we see here that it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, it says an altar of whole stones over which no man has wielded an iron tool.

Where in the Bible is this written?

Deu 27:5  And there you shall build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones; you shall not use an iron tool on them.

So we see in Deuteronomy it is written.

1Ki 2:3  And keep the charge of the LORD your God: to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn;

Where in the Bible is it written that you may prosper in all that you do if you keep God s statutes, commandments, judgments and testimonies?

Deu 29:9  Therefore keep the words of this covenant, and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

Again in Deuteronomy.

2Ki 14:6  But the children of the murderers he did not execute, according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, in which the LORD commanded, saying, Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their fathers; but a person shall be put to death for his own sin.

Again the Book of the Law of Moses is mentioned in 2 kings. Where does it say that Fathers shall not be put to death for their children?

Deu 24:16  Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their fathers; a person shall be put to death for his own sin.

Deuteronomy again.

Read all of the verses below and every time the Book of the Law of Moses is mentioned you will find that they were written in the book of Deuteronomy.

2Ch 23:18  Also Jehoiada appointed the oversight of the house of the LORD to the hand of the priests, the Levites, whom David had assigned in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was established by David.

Deu 12:12  And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

2Ch 25:4  However he did not execute their children, but did as it is written in the Law in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall the children be put to death for their fathers; but a person shall die for his own sin.

Deu 24:16  Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their fathers; a person shall be put to death for his own sin.

2Ch 34:14  Now when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of the LORD given by Moses.

2Ch 34:24  Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will bring calamity on this place and on its inhabitants, all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah,

Deu 28:15  But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

Ezr 3:2  Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brethren, arose and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.

Deu 12:6  There you shall take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, your vowed offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

Deu 12:7  And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all to which you have put your hand, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.

Deu 12:8  You shall not at all do as we are doing here today every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes

Deu 12:9  for as yet you have not come to the rest and the inheritance which the LORD your God is giving you.

Deu 12:10  But when you cross over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety,

Deu 12:11  then there will be the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide. There you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, and all your choice offerings which you vow to the LORD.

Dan 9:11  Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him.

Dan 9:13  As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us; yet we have not made our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.

Deu 29:12  that you may enter into covenant with the LORD your God, and into His oath, which the LORD your God makes with you today,

Deu 29:13  that He may establish you today as a people for Himself, and that He may be God to you, just as He has spoken to you, and just as He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deu 29:14  I make this covenant and this oath, not with you alone,

Deu 29:15  but with him who stands here with us today before the LORD our God, as well as with him who is not here with us today

Deu 29:16  (for you know that we dwelt in the land of Egypt and that we came through the nations which you passed by,

Deu 29:17  and you saw their abominations and their idols which were among them wood and stone and silver and gold);

Deu 29:18  so that there may not be among you man or woman or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, and that there may not be among you a root bearing bitterness or wormwood;

Deu 29:19  and so it may not happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, even though I follow the dictates of my heart as though the drunkard could be included with the sober.

Deu 29:20  The LORD would not spare him; for then the anger of the LORD and His jealousy would burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book would settle on him, and the LORD would blot out his name from under heaven.

Deu 29:21  And the LORD would separate him from all the tribes of Israel for adversity, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this Book of the Law,

Act 15:5  But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.

Deu 30:6  And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

Heb 10:28  Anyone who has rejected Moses law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Deu 17:6  Whoever is deserving of death shall be put to death on the testimony of two or three witnesses; he shall not be put to death on the testimony of one witness.

We can see that God want s us to read the book of Deuteronomy every seventh year at the Feast of Tabernacles.