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Deuteronomy 11:29
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29 (A) After the Lord your God helps you take the land, you must have a ceremony where you announce his blessings from Mount Gerizim and his curses from Mount Ebal.

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29 When the Lord your God has brought you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim on Mount Gerizim(A) the blessings, and on Mount Ebal(B) the curses.(C)

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Deuteronomy 27:11-26
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11 That same day, Moses gave them the following instructions:

12-13 (A) After you cross the Jordan River, you will go to Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal.[a] The tribes of Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Ephraim, Manasseh,[b] and Benjamin will go up on Mount Gerizim, where they will bless the people of Israel. The tribes of Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali will go up on Mount Ebal where they will agree to the curses.

14-26 (B) The people of the Levi tribe will speak each curse in a loud voice, then the rest of the people[c] will agree to that curse by saying, “Amen!” Here are the curses:

We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who makes an idol or worships idols, even secretly. The Lord is disgusted with idols.

We ask the Lord to put a curse on all who do not show respect for their father and mother.

We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who moves the rocks that mark property lines.

We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who tells blind people to go the wrong way.

We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who keeps the poor from getting justice, whether these poor are foreigners, widows, or orphans.

We ask the Lord to put a curse on any man who sleeps with his father's wife; that man has shown no respect for his father's marriage.

We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who has sex with an animal.

We ask the Lord to put a curse on any man who sleeps with his sister or his half sister or his mother-in-law.

We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who commits murder, even when there are no witnesses to the crime.

We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who accepts money to murder an innocent victim.

We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who refuses to obey his laws.

And so, to each of these curses, the people will answer, “Amen!”

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Footnotes

  1. 27.12,13 Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal: These mountains were separated by a valley.
  2. 27.12,13 Ephraim, Manasseh: The Hebrew text has “Joseph”; the descendants of Joseph formed the two tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh.
  3. 27.14-26 the rest of the people: Or “all the people who are standing on Mount Ebal.”
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Deuteronomy 27:11-26
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11 On the same day Moses commanded the people:

12 When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim(A) to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar,(B) Joseph and Benjamin.(C) 13 And these tribes shall stand on Mount Ebal(D) to pronounce curses: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali.

14 The Levites shall recite to all the people of Israel in a loud voice:

15 “Cursed is anyone who makes an idol(E)—a thing detestable(F) to the Lord, the work of skilled hands—and sets it up in secret.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”(G)

16 “Cursed is anyone who dishonors their father or mother.”(H)

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

17 “Cursed is anyone who moves their neighbor’s boundary stone.”(I)

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

18 “Cursed is anyone who leads the blind astray on the road.”(J)

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

19 “Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner,(K) the fatherless or the widow.”(L)

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

20 “Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he dishonors his father’s bed.”(M)

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

21 “Cursed is anyone who has sexual relations with any animal.”(N)

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

22 “Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.”(O)

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

23 “Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his mother-in-law.”(P)

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

24 “Cursed is anyone who kills(Q) their neighbor secretly.”(R)

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

25 “Cursed is anyone who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person.”(S)

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

26 “Cursed is anyone who does not uphold the words of this law by carrying them out.”(T)

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”(U)

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