⁴ After you have crossed the Jordan River, set up these stones. Set them on Mount Ebal as I command you today. And cover them with plaster. ⁵ Build an altar of stones there to the Lord your God. But don’t use any iron tool to cut the stones. ⁶ Build the altar of the Lord your God with stones from the field. Offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God. ⁷ Offer fellowship offerings there. Eat them and rejoice before the Lord your God.

³⁰ Then Joshua built an altar for the Lord, the God of Israel. He built it on Mount Ebal, as ³¹ Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded. Joshua built the altar as it was explained in the Book of the Teachings of Moses. The altar was made from stones that were not cut. No tool was ever used on them. The Israelites offered burnt offerings to the Lord on that altar. They also offered fellowship offerings. ³² There Joshua wrote the teachings of Moses on stones. He did this for all the people of Israel to see.