Deuteronomy 27:2-8
Living Bible
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. 7 Sacrifice peace offerings upon it also, and feast there with great joy before the Lord your God. 8 Write all of these laws plainly upon the monument.[b]”
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- Deuteronomy 27:2 with a coating of lime, literally, “plaster them with plaster.”
- Deuteronomy 27:8 upon the monument, implied; see vv. 1-4.
Deuteronomy 27:2-8
New International Version
2 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) 3 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. 4 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. 5 Build there an altar(F) to the Lord your God, an altar of stones. Do not use any iron tool(G) on them. 6 Build the altar of the Lord your God with fieldstones and offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God. 7 Sacrifice fellowship offerings(H) there, eating them and rejoicing(I) in the presence of the Lord your God.(J) 8 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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