Deuteronomy 27:6-16

6 et de saxis informibus et inpolitis et offeres super eo holocausta Domino Deo tuo

7 et immolabis hostias pacificas comedesque ibi et epulaberis coram Domino Deo tuo

8 et scribes super lapides omnia verba legis huius plane et lucide

9 dixeruntque Moses et sacerdotes levitici generis ad omnem Israhelem adtende et audi Israhel hodie factus es populus Domini Dei tui

10 audies vocem eius et facies mandata atque iustitias quas ego praecipio tibi

11 praecepitque Moses populo in die illo dicens

12 hii stabunt ad benedicendum Domino super montem Garizim Iordane transmisso Symeon Levi Iudas Isachar Ioseph et Beniamin

13 et e regione isti stabunt ad maledicendum in monte Hebal Ruben Gad et Aser Zabulon Dan et Nepthalim

14 et pronuntiabunt Levitae dicentque ad omnes viros Israhel excelsa voce

15 maledictus homo qui facit sculptile et conflatile abominationem Domini opus manuum artificum ponetque illud in abscondito et respondebit omnis populus et dicet amen

16 maledictus qui non honorat patrem suum et matrem et dicet omnis populus amen

Deuteronomy 27:6-16 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 27

In this chapter the people of Israel are ordered to write the law on plastered stones, and set them on Mount Ebal, De 27:1-4; where they are bid to erect an altar, and offer sacrifices on it, De 27:5-8; and are charged by Moses and the priests to obey the Lord, and keep his commandments, De 27:9,10; and a direction is given to each tribes which should stand and bless, and which curse, and where, De 27:11-13; and the curses which the Levites should pronounce with a loud voice, and the people should say Amen to, are recited, De 27:14-25; and the whole is concluded with a curse on all who in general do not perform the whole law, De 27:26.