Joshua 8:34

34 Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

Joshua 8:34 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 8:34

And afterwards he read all the words of the law
Not the whole Pentateuch, nor the whole book of Deuteronomy, but either some parts of it, the decalogue, or whatsoever he had written on the stones, and as follows:

the blessings and cursings, according to all that was written in the
book of the law;
( Deuteronomy 27:14-26 ) ( 28:1-6 ) ; (See Gill on Deuteronomy 27:11).

Joshua 8:34 In-Context

32 He wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote, in the presence of the children of Israel.
33 All Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, as well the sojourner as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.
34 Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua didn't read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners who were among them.
The World English Bible is in the public domain.