Curses from Mount Ebal

Deuteronomy 27

9 And Moses speaketh -- the priests, the Levites, also -- unto all Israel, saying, `Keep silent, and hear, O Israel, this day thou hast become a people to Jehovah thy God; 10 and thou hast hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and done His commands, and His statutes, which I am commanding thee to-day.'

11 And Moses commandeth the people on that day, saying, 12 `These do stand, to bless the people, on mount Gerizzim, in your passing over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin. 13 And these do stand, for the reviling, on mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. 14 `And the Levites have answered and said unto every man of Israel -- a loud voice:

15 `Cursed [is] the man who maketh a graven and molten image, the abomination of Jehovah, work of the hands of an artificer, and hath put [it] in a secret place, -- and all the people have answered and said, Amen.

16 `Cursed [is] He who is making light of his father and his mother, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

17 `Cursed [is] he who is removing his neighbour's border, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

18 `Cursed [is] he who is causing the blind to err in the way, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

19 `Cursed [is] he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

20 `Cursed [is] he who is lying with his father's wife, for he hath uncovered his father's skirt, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

21 `Cursed [is] he who is lying with any beast, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

22 `Cursed [is] he who is lying with his sister, daughter of his father, or daughter of his mother, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

23 `Cursed [is] he who is lying with his mother-in-law, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

24 `Cursed [is] he who is smiting his neighbour in secret, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

25 `Cursed [is] he who is taking a bribe to smite a person, innocent blood, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

26 `Cursed [is] he who doth not establish the words of this law, to do them, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

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