¹³And these shall stand on Mount Ebal for delivering the curse: Reuben, Gad and Asher and Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali. ¹⁴And the Levites shall declare,^r and they shall say to each man of Israel with a loud voice, ¹⁵‘Cursed be the man that makes a divine image or a cast image, which is a detestable thing for Yahweh, the work of the hand of a skilled craftsman, and then sets it in a hiding place.’^s And all the people shall respond,^t ‘Amen.’

¹⁶‘Cursed be the one who dishonors his father or his mother.’ And all of the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

¹⁷‘Cursed be the one who moves the boundary marker of his neighbor.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

¹⁸‘Cursed be the one who misleads a blind person on the road.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

¹⁹‘Cursed be the one who deprives the alien, the orphan, and the widow of justice.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

²⁰‘Cursed be the one who lies with the wife of his father, because he has dishonored his father’s bed.’^u And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

²¹‘Cursed be the one who lies with any kind of animal.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

²²‘Cursed be the one who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

²³‘Cursed be the one who lies with his mother-in-law.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

²⁴‘Cursed be the one who strikes down his neighbor in secret.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

²⁵‘Cursed be the one who takes a bribe to murder an innocent person.’^v And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

²⁶‘Cursed be the one who does not keep^w the words of this law, to observe them.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ”

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Footnotes

rLiterally “they shall answer the Levites”
sOr “a secret place”
tLiterally “and they shall answer all of the people”
uLiterally “because he uncovered the hem of his father”
vLiterally “to strike down an individual person in blood”
wLiterally “who not keeps”