Joshua 8:30–35

Joshua Renews the Covenant

³⁰Now Joshua built an altar to the Lord God of Israel ^sin Mount Ebal, ³¹as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: ^t“an altar of whole stones over which no man has wielded an iron tool.” And ^uthey offered on it burnt offerings to the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings. ³²And there, in the presence of the children of Israel, ^vhe wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written. ³³Then all Israel, with their elders and officers and judges, stood on either side of the ark before the priests, the Levites, ^wwho bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, ^xthe stranger as well as he who was born among them. Half of them were in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, ^yas Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel. ³⁴And afterward ^zhe read all the words of the law, ^athe blessings and the cursings, according to all that is written in the ^bBook of the Law. ³⁵There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, ^cwith the women, the little ones, ^dand the strangers who were living among them.