2 And when you are passed over Jordan into the land, which our Lord thy God will give thee, thou shalt erect great stones, and shalt polish them with plaster.📜💬📚

3 that thou mayst write on them all the words of this law, when thou hast passed over Jordan: that thou mayst enter into the Land, which our Lord thy God will give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, as he sware to thy fathers.📜💬📚

4 When therefore you are passed Jordan, erect the stones, which I command you this day, in mount Hebal, and thou shalt polish them with plaster:📜💬📚

5 and thou shalt build there an altar to our Lord thy God, of stones, which iron hath not touched,📜💬📚

6 and of stones not fashioned nor polished: and thou shalt put upon it holocausts to our Lord thy God,📜💬📚

7 and shalt immolate pacific hosts, and eat there, and feast before our Lord thy God.📜💬📚

8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law plainly and clearly.📜💬📚

9 And Moyses and the Priests of the Levitical stock said to all Israel: Attend, and hear Israel: This day thou art made the people of our Lord thy God:📜💬📚

10 thou shalt hear his voice, and do the commandments and justices, which I command thee.📜💬📚

Curses Pronounced from Ebal

11 And Moyses commanded the people in that day, saying:📜💬📚

12 These shall stand to bless the people, upon mount Garizim, when you are past Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judas, Issachar, Joseph, & Benjamin.📜💬📚

13 And over against them these shall stand to curse on mount Hebal: Ruben, Gad, and Aser, and Zabulon, Dan and Nephthali.📜💬📚

14 And the Levites shall pronounce, and say to all the men of Israel with a high voice:📜💬📚

15 Cursed be the man that maketh a graven and molten thing, the abomination of our Lord, the work of the hands of artificers, & shall put it in secret, and all the people shall answer, and say: Amen.📜💬📚

16 Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother. And all the people shall say: Amen.📜💬📚

17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's bounds. And all the people shall say: Amen.📜💬📚

18 Cursed be he that maketh the blind to go amiss in his journey. And all the people shall say: Amen.📜💬📚

19 Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, of the pupil and the widow. And all the people shall say: Amen.📜💬📚

20 Cursed be he that sleepeth with his father's wife, and revealeth the cover of his bed. And all the people shall say: Amen.📜💬📚

21 Cursed be he that lieth with any beast. And all the people shall say: Amen.📜💬📚

22 Cursed be he that sleepeth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or of his mother. And all the people shall say: Amen.📜💬📚

23 Cursed be he that sleepeth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say: Amen.📜💬📚

24 Cursed be he that secretly striketh his neighbour. And all the people shall say: Amen.📜💬📚

25 Cursed be he that taketh gifts, to kill the soul of innocent blood. And all the people shall say: Amen.📜💬📚

26 Cursed be he that abideth not in the words of this law, and fulfilleth them not in work, and all the people shall say: Amen.📜💬📚

Douay Rheims Original ↷

Deuteronomy 27 📜 📕 ↷

Altar on Mount Ebal

Curses Pronounced from Ebal

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