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         <div class="label">27</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Altar on Mount Ebal</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DEU.27.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: &#8220;Keep all these commands that I give you today. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DEU.27.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When you have crossed the Jordan into the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is giving you, set up some large stones and coat them with plaster. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DEU.27.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of your ancestors, promised you. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DEU.27.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And when you have crossed the Jordan, set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I command you today, and coat them with plaster. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DEU.27.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Build there an altar to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, an altar of stones. Do not use any iron tool on them. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.27.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Build the altar of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God with fieldstones and offer burnt offerings on it to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.27.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Sacrifice fellowship offerings there, eating them and rejoicing in the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.27.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And you shall write very clearly all the words of this law on these stones you have set up.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Curses From Mount Ebal</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.27.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.27.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, &#8220;Be silent, Israel, and listen! You have now become the people of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.27.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Obey the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God and follow his commands and decrees that I give you today.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.27.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.27.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">On the same day Moses commanded the people:</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.27.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.27.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph and Benjamin. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.27.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And these tribes shall stand on Mount Ebal to pronounce curses: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.27.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.27.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The Levites shall recite to all the people of Israel in a loud voice:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.27.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.27.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is anyone who makes an idol&#8212;a thing detestable to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the work of skilled hands&#8212;and sets it up in secret.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pmr"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.27.15"><span class="content">Then all the people shall say, &#8220;Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.27.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.27.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is anyone who dishonors their father or mother.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pmr"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.27.16"><span class="content">Then all the people shall say, &#8220;Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.27.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.27.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is anyone who moves their neighbor&#8217;s boundary stone.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pmr"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.27.17"><span class="content">Then all the people shall say, &#8220;Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.27.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.27.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is anyone who leads the blind astray on the road.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pmr"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.27.18"><span class="content">Then all the people shall say, &#8220;Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.27.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.27.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pmr"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.27.19"><span class="content">Then all the people shall say, &#8220;Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.27.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DEU.27.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his father&#8217;s wife, for he dishonors his father&#8217;s bed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pmr"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DEU.27.20"><span class="content">Then all the people shall say, &#8220;Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DEU.27.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DEU.27.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is anyone who has sexual relations with any animal.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pmr"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DEU.27.21"><span class="content">Then all the people shall say, &#8220;Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DEU.27.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DEU.27.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pmr"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DEU.27.22"><span class="content">Then all the people shall say, &#8220;Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DEU.27.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DEU.27.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his mother-in-law.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pmr"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DEU.27.23"><span class="content">Then all the people shall say, &#8220;Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DEU.27.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DEU.27.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is anyone who kills their neighbor secretly.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pmr"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DEU.27.24"><span class="content">Then all the people shall say, &#8220;Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DEU.27.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DEU.27.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is anyone who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pmr"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DEU.27.25"><span class="content">Then all the people shall say, &#8220;Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DEU.27.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="DEU.27.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is anyone who does not uphold the words of this law by carrying them out.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="pmr"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="DEU.27.26"><span class="content">Then all the people shall say, &#8220;Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div>
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