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411 Pet . 1 :25 "'The word spokenby Jehovah endures forever .' Well,this is the `word spoken', thiswhich has been declared to youas good news ."Kept by side of ark of covenantfrom time of writingDent . 31 :26 "Take this book ofthe law, and put it by the sideof the ark of the covenant ofJehovah your God, that it may bethere for a witness against thee ."1 Sam . 10:25 "Then Samueltold the people the manner ofthe kingdom, and wrote it in abook, and laid it up beforeJehovah ."Used by priests to teach duringreign of Jehoshaphat2 Chron. 17 :9 "And they taughtin Judah, having the book of thelaw of Jehovah with them ; andthey went about throughout allthe cities of Judah, and taughtamong the people."Book "found" in temple duringKing Josiah's reign, 642 B .C.2 Ki . 22 :3, 8, 10 "In the eighteenthyear of king Josiah, .Hilkiah the high priest said untoShaphan the scribe, I have foundthe book of the law in the houseof Jehovah . . . . And Shaphan thescribe told the king, saying, Hilkiahthe priest hath deliveredme a book. And Shaphan readit before the king ."Preserved during exile, beginning607 B .C.Dan . 9 :2 "In the first year ofhis [Darius'] reign, I. Daniel, understoodby the books the numberof the years whereof the wordof Jehovah came to jeremiah theprophet, for the accomplishing ofthe desolations of Jerusalem, evenseventy years ."Ezra read law to returnedexiles after 537 B.C .Neh. 8 :8 "And they read in thebook, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, sothat they understood the reading. °BibleUsed by Jesus and disciplesLuke 4 :17-21 "So the scroll ofthe prophet Isaiah was handedhim, and he opened the scrolland found the place where it waswritten . . . . With that he rolledup the scroll, handed it back tothe attendant and sat down ; . . .Then he started to say to them :'Today this scripture that youjust heard is fulfilled .'"2 Pet. 3 :15, 16 "Paul accordingto the wisdom given him alsowrote you, speaking about thesethings as he does also in all hisother letters. In them, however,are some things hard to understand,the meaning of which theuntaught and unsteady are twisting,as they do also the rest ofthe Scriptures, to their own destruction."Preserved also through translationsto carry out earth-widepreaching commissionMatt. 28 :19, 20 "Go thereforeand make disciples of people ofall the nations, baptizing them inthe name of the Father and ofthe Son and of the holy spirit,teaching them to observe all thethings I have commanded you ."Acts 1 :8 "But you will receivepower when the holy spirit arrivesupon you, and you will bewitnesses of me both in Jerusalemand in all Judea and Samariaand to the most distantpart of the earth."Versus TraditionGod's Word not to be set asidefor man's traditionMatt. 15 :1-9 "Then there cameto Jesus from Jerusalem Phariseesand scribes, saying : `Why isit your disciples overstep the traditionof the men of formertimes?' . . . In reply he said tothem : `Why is it you also overstepthe commandment of Godbecause of your tradition? . . . youhave made the word of God invalidbecause of your tradition .You hypocrites, Isaiah aptlyprophesied about you, when he