³⁰Then Joshua built an altar on Mount Ebal for Yahweh the God of Israel, ³¹as Moses Yahweh’s servant commanded the Israelites,^z as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses: “an altar of unhewn^a stones on which no one has wielded^b an iron implement.”^c And they offered burnt offerings on it and sacrificed fellowship offerings. ³²And there Joshua wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he^d had written, in the presence of the Israelites.^e ³³Then all Israel, foreigner as well as native,^f with the elders, officials, and judges stood on either side^g of the ark before the priests and the Levites, who carried the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. Half of them stood in front of Mount Gerizim, and the other half in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses Yahweh’s servant had commanded before to bless the people of Israel. ³⁴And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings^h and the curses,ⁱ according to all that was written in the scroll of the law. ³⁵There was not a word from all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before the assembly of all Israel, and the women, the little children, and the traveling foreigners^j among them.

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Footnotes

zLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
aOr “whole”
bLiterally “waved over them”
cSee Exod 20:25
dThat is, Moses
eLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
fLiterally “as the alien as the native”
gLiterally “from this and from this”
hHebrew “blessing”
iHebrew “curse”
jHebrew “foreigner”