Deuteronomio 27:4

4 Después de cruzar el Jordán, erige esas piedras en el monte Ebal y recúbrelas con yeso, tal como te ordeno hoy.

Deuteronomio 27:4 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 27:4

And therefore it shall be, when ye be gone over Jordan
Some time after they had passed that river:

[that] ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in
Mount Ebal;
a mountain near Shechem in Samaria, and was, as Benjamin of Tudela says ^F18, dry as stones and rocks itself, and perhaps had its name, as some think ^F19, from the root in the Arabic language which signifies to strip a tree of its leaves, and a derivative from it, white stones and a mountain in which such are found. Hither the stones commanded to be set up were to be brought, and fixed here; from whence it is not certain; it may be from some part of the mountain. Here the Samaritan version has Gerizim instead of Ebal, which is generally thought to be a wilful corruption of the Samaritans, in favour of their temple built at Gerizim:

and thou shall plaster them with plaster;
as before directed, ( Deuteronomy 27:2 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 Itinerar. p. 40.
F19 Reland. Dissert. 3. de Monte Gerizim, p. 128. See Castel. Lexic. Heptaglott col 2642.

Deuteronomio 27:4 In-Context

2 Cuando cruces el río Jordán y entres en la tierra que el Señor
tu Dios te da, erige algunas piedras grandes y recúbrelas con yeso.

3 Escribe en ellas todo este conjunto de instrucciones una vez que hayas cruzado el río para entrar en la tierra que el Señor
tu Dios te da, una tierra donde fluyen la leche y la miel, tal como te prometió el Señor
, Dios de tus antepasados.

4 Después de cruzar el Jordán, erige esas piedras en el monte Ebal y recúbrelas con yeso, tal como te ordeno hoy.

5 »Luego edifica allí un altar al Señor
tu Dios con piedras enteras y en su forma original. No des forma a las piedras con ninguna herramienta de hierro.

6 Edifica el altar con esas piedras sin labrar y úsalo para presentar ofrendas quemadas al Señor
tu Dios.