The missing Scrolls

Take this book of Teaching and place it beside the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD your God, and let it remain there as a witness against you. (Deuteronomy 31:26 Masoretic Torah)

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“take this book of the Torah!” according to a Midrash, on this date, the seventh day of the month of Adar, Moses personally wrote 13 Torah scrolls one each for the twelve tribes. He read out of each one before each of the tribes passages of warning, exhorting them to observe the Torah meticulously. He read to the men and women separately, warning them to treasure their Torah scroll and protect it from all hazards. Moses took the thirteenth Torah scroll and deposited it in the Holy Ark next to the second set of Tablets. This interpretation is based on the text of this verse, which appears portray him as instructing the priests to do so, [as being “only” a Levite he had no access to the Holy Ark inside the tabernacle. Ed.] (COMMENTARY Daat Zkenim on Deuteronomy Chapter 31:26)

Also the Midrash (Devarim Rabba 9:4) tells us:

Before his death, Moses wrote 13 Torah Scrolls. Twelve of these were distributed to each of the 12 Tribes. The 13th was placed in the Ark of the Covenant (along with the Tablets). If anyone would come and attempt to rewrite or falsify the Torah, the one in the Ark would "testify" against him.

Note from the above rabbinic commentary and traditions, Moses wrote 13 scrolls in total and distributed to each of the 12 Tribes and kept the 13th scroll inside the ark of the covenant. The question is if Moses wrote 13 scrolls of the law where did the 5 books of the Pentateuch come from? By the time Moses wrote the 13 scrolls he already reached 120 years old. The question to ask is, how many scrolls would it take to make up the 5 books of the Pentateuch you do the maths. Bear in mind, historically speaking during the time of Moses the Hebrew alphabets were not in use, rather Moses would have written in EGYPTIAN or CANAANITE or something else.

Moses wrote down this Teaching and gave it to the priests, sons of Levi, who carried the Ark of the LORD’s Covenant, and to all the elders of Israel. (Deuteronomy 31:9 Masoretic Torah)

Compare with the DSS fragments

Moses wrote this law on a scroll, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and to all the elders of Israel. (Deuteronomy 31:9 DSS Torah)

Did you catch the problem? Notice how the Masoretic Torah written during the 10th century subtracts "on a scroll"  as found in the DSS fragments roughly 200 BC. Here according to the earliest fragments we clearly read Moses wrote on scrolls, that would be the 13 scrolls the laws givens by God himself.  If you were to ask any Jew or Christian do you have a copy of scrolls which Moses wrote himself dating back roughly 3,500 years, then the answer would be a no. they may answer you by saying, though we may not have the scrolls we have a tradition that goes back to the time of Moses etc. the question still remains, if the words of God was written by Moses himself in front of his tribes can go missing, what make you say the Torah copies which you have no are the actual original laws once given to Moses?  We've already established that Moses did not write the Pentateuch due to his age and resource and many other reasons.

We can conclude the current "Torah" Jews and Christians read is not the Torah from God.  Rabbis have played their part in writing and twisting the very word of God. If Christians still believe the Torah they have is the truth, then bring forth the scrolls which Moses wrote so it can be compared side by side.