Ceremony on Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal

²⁶ Pay attention! I am setting blessing and curse before you right now: ²⁷ the blessing if you obey the Lord your God’s commandments that I am giving you right now, ²⁸ but the curse if you don’t obey the Lord your God’s commandments and stray from the path that I am giving you today by following other gods that you have not known. ²⁹ Now when the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of, put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. (³⁰ Aren’t both of these mountains across the Jordan River, down along the western road in the region of the Canaanites who live in the desert plain, across from Gilgal, next to the Moreh Oak Grove?)

³¹ So then, once you cross the Jordan River to enter and possess the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you take possession of it, settling down in it, ³² you must carefully follow the regulations and the case laws that I am laying out before you right now.