The law is the same for the sin offering and the guilt offering; it belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it.

This is the law for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering, and the peace offering sacrifice,

“This is the law of the diseased person on the day of his purification, when he is brought to the priest.

This is the law of the one in whom there is a diseased infection, who does not have sufficient means for his purification.”

This is the law of the one with a discharge: the one who has a seminal emission and becomes unclean by it,

“‘This is the law for cases of jealousy, when a wife, while under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself,

One law and one custom must apply to you and to the resident foreigner who lives alongside you.’”

You must have one law for the person who sins unintentionally, both for the native-born among the Israelites and for the resident foreigner who lives among them.

So it was in the Transjordan, in Moab, that Moses began to deliver these words:

You must inscribe on the stones all the words of this law, making them clear.”

When Moses finished writing on a scroll the words of this law in their entirety,

They will teach Jacob your ordinances and Israel your law; they will offer incense as a pleasant odor, and a whole offering on your altar.

When the king heard the words of the law scroll, he tore his clothes.

After Rehoboam’s rule was established and solidified, he and all Israel rejected the law of the Lord.

He ordered Judah to seek the Lord God of their ancestors and to observe his law and commands.

For a long time Israel had no true God, or priest to instruct them, or law.

They taught throughout Judah, taking with them the scroll of the law of the Lord. They traveled to all the cities of Judah and taught the people.

He ordered the people living in Jerusalem to contribute the portion prescribed for the priests and Levites so they might be obedient to the law of the Lord.

When the king heard the words of the law scroll, he tore his clothes.

They read from the book of God’s law, explaining it and imparting insight. Thus the people gained understanding from what was read.