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2-4 “When you cross the Jordan River and go into the Promised Land—a land ‘flowing with milk and honey’—take out boulders from the river bottom and immediately pile them into a monument on the other side, at Mount Ebal. Face the stones with a coating of lime[a] and then write the laws of God in the lime. 5-6 And build an altar there to the Lord your God. Use uncut boulders, and on the altar offer burnt offerings to the Lord your God. Sacrifice peace offerings upon it also, and feast there with great joy before the Lord your God. Write all of these laws plainly upon the monument.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 27:2 with a coating of lime, literally, “plaster them with plaster.”
  2. Deuteronomy 27:8 upon the monument, implied; see vv. 1-4.

When you have crossed the Jordan(A) into the land the Lord your God is giving you, set up some large stones(B) and coat them with plaster.(C) Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey,(D) just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you. And when you have crossed the Jordan, set up these stones on Mount Ebal,(E) as I command you today, and coat them with plaster. Build there an altar(F) to the Lord your God, an altar of stones. Do not use any iron tool(G) on them. Build the altar of the Lord your God with fieldstones and offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God. Sacrifice fellowship offerings(H) there, eating them and rejoicing(I) in the presence of the Lord your God.(J) And you shall write very clearly all the words of this law on these stones(K) you have set up.”(L)

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