Deuteronomy 27:4-26 ▼

4 And it has been, in your passing over the Jordan, you raise up these stones which I am commanding you today, in Mount Ebal, and you have plastered them with plaster,

5 and built an altar there to your God YHWH, an altar of stones; you do not wave iron over them.

6 You build the altar of your God YHWH [with] complete stones, and have caused burnt-offerings to ascend on it to your God YHWH,

7 and sacrificed peace-offerings, and eaten there, and rejoiced before your God YHWH,

8 and written on the stones all the words of this law, well engraved.”

9 And Moses speaks—the priests, the Levites, also—to all Israel, saying, “Keep silent and hear, O Israel: This day you have become a people for your God YHWH;

10 and you have listened to the voice of your God YHWH, and done His commands and His statutes which I am commanding you today.”

11 And Moses commands the people on that day, saying,

12 “These stand on Mount Gerizzim to bless the people, in your passing over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.

13 And these stand, for the reviling, on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.”

14 And the Levites have answered and said to every man of Israel [with] a loud voice:

15 “Cursed [is] the man who makes a carved and molten image, an abomination [to] YHWH, work of the hands of a craftsman, and has put [it] in a secret place.” And all the people have answered and said, “Amen.”

16 “Cursed [is] he who is making light of his father and his mother.” And all the people have said, “Amen.”

17 “Cursed [is] he who is removing his neighbor’s border.” And all the people have said, “Amen.”

18 “Cursed [is] he who is causing the blind to err in the way.” And all the people have said, “Amen.”

19 “Cursed [is] he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow.” And all the people have said, “Amen.”

20 “Cursed [is] he who is lying with his father’s wife, for he has uncovered his father’s skirt.” And all the people have said, “Amen.”

21 “Cursed [is] he who is lying with any beast.” And all the people have said, “Amen.”

22 “Cursed [is] he who is lying with his sister, daughter of his father or daughter of his mother.” And all the people have said, “Amen.”

23 “Cursed [is] he who is lying with his mother-in-law.” And all the people have said, “Amen.”

24 “Cursed [is] he who is striking his neighbor in secret.” And all the people have said, “Amen.”

25 “Cursed [is] he who is taking a bribe to strike a person, innocent blood.” And all the people have said, “Amen.”

26 “Cursed [is] he who does not establish the words of this law, to do them.” And all the people have said, “Amen.”