Deuteronomy 27:13-23

13 These shall stand on Mount `Eval for the curse: Re'uven, Gad, and Asher, and Zevulun, Dan, and Naftali.

14 The Levites shall answer, and tell all the men of Yisra'el with a loud voice,

15 Cursed be the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. All the people shall answer and say, Amein.

16 Cursed be he who sets light by his father or his mother. All the people shall say, Amein.

17 Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. All the people shall say, Amein.

18 Cursed be he who makes the blind to wander out of the way. All the people shall say, Amein.

19 Cursed be he who wrests the justice [due] to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. All the people shall say, Amein.

20 Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt. All the people shall say, Amein.

21 Cursed be he who lies with any manner of animal. All the people shall say, Amein.

22 Cursed be he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. All the people shall say, Amein.

23 Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law. All the people shall say, Amein.

Deuteronomy 27:13-23 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.