^2 (A)So it shall be on the day when you cross the Jordan to the land which the Lord your God is giving you, that you shall set up for yourself large stones and coat them with lime ³ and write on them all the words of this Law, when you cross over, so that you may enter the land which the Lord your God is giving you, ^(B)a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your fathers, ^[a]promised you. ⁴ So it shall be when you cross the Jordan, you shall set up these stones ^(C)on Mount Ebal, ^[b]as I am commanding you today, and you shall coat them with lime. ⁵ Moreover, you shall build there an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones; you ^(D)shall not wield an iron tool on them. ⁶ You shall build the altar of the Lord your God of ^[c]uncut stones, and you shall offer on it burnt offerings to the Lord your God; ⁷ and you shall sacrifice peace offerings and eat there, and ^(E)rejoice before the Lord your God. ⁸ You shall write on the ^[d]stones all the words of this Law very clearly.”

³⁰ Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, on ^(A)Mount Ebal, ³¹ just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, ^(B)an altar of uncut stones on which no one had wielded an iron tool; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings. ³² And he ^(C)wrote there on the stones a copy of the Law of Moses, which ^[a]he had written, in the presence of the sons of Israel. ^33 (D)And all Israel with their elders, officers, and their judges were standing on both sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, the stranger as well as the native. Half of them stood in front of ^(E)Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded at first to bless the people of Israel. ³⁴ Then afterward he read all the words of the Law, the blessing and the curse, according to everything that is written in ^(F)the Book of the Law. ³⁵ There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel ^(G)with the women, the little ones, and the strangers who were ^[b]living among them.