Joshua 8:30
Good News Translation
Then Joshua built on Mount Ebal an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Joshua built on Mount Ebal an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel,

New American Bible
Later, on Mount Ebal, Joshua built to the LORD, the God of Israel, an altar

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, in Mount Hebal,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, in Mount Hebal,

built an altar

Genesis 8:20 And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar.

Genesis 12:7,8 And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. . . .

11:29,30, in which he pointed out the very place where it was to be performed; and again, at the

27th chapter, there is a renewal of the instructions to Joshua, with special reference to minute particulars. It was a federal transaction: the covenant was now renewed between Gid and Israel upon their taking possession of the land of promise, that they might be encouraged in the conquest of it, and might know upon what terms they held it, and come under fresh obligations of obedience.

Joshua 8:33 And all the people, and the ancients, and the princes, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark, before the priests that carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, both the stranger and he that was born among them, half of them by Mount Garizim, and half by Mount Hebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord, had commanded. And first he blessed the people of Israel.

Context
Joshua Renews the Covenant
30Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, in Mount Hebal,31As Moses, the servant of the Lord, had commanded the children of Israel, and it is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of unhewn stones, which iron had not touched: and he offered upon it holocausts to the Lord, and immolated victims of peace offerings.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:2
And when you are passed over the Jordan into the land which the Lord thy God will give thee, thou shalt set up great stones, and shalt plaster them over with plaster,

Deuteronomy 27:4
Therefore when you are passed over the Jordan, set up the stones which I command you this day, in mount Hebal, and thou shalt plaster them with plaster:

Joshua 8:29
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