Dual PanelMoses' closing discourse
1MOSES, with the elders of Israel, gave the people this charge: Keep all the commandments that I now lay upon you.
2On the day you cross the Jordan to the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you are to set up great stones. Coat them with plaster,
3and inscribe on them all the words of this law, when you have crossed over to enter the land which the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD the God of your forefathers promised you.
4When you have crossed the Jordan you are to set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I instruct you this day, and coat them with plaster.
5Build an altar there to the LORD your God, an altar of stones on which no iron tool is to be used.
6Build the altar of the LORD your God with blocks of undressed stone, and offer whole-offerings on it to the LORD your God.
7Slaughter shared-offerings and eat them there, and rejoice before the LORD your God.
8Inscribe on the stones all the words of this law, engraving them clearly and carefully.
9Moses and the levitical priests said to all Israel: Be silent, Israel, and listen; this day you have become a people belonging to the LORD your God.
10Obey the LORD your God, and observe his commandments and statutes that I now lay upon you.
11That day Moses gave the people this command:
12When you have crossed the Jordan those who are to stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people are: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
13Those who are to stand on Mount Ebal to pronounce the curse are: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
14The Levites, in the hearing of all Israel, are to intone these words:
15“A curse on anyone who carves an image or casts an idol, anything abominable to the LORD, a craftsman's handiwork, and sets it up in secret”: the people must all respond, “Amen.”
16“A curse on anyone who slights his father or his mother”: the people must all say, “Amen.”
17“A curse on anyone who moves his neighbour's boundary stone”: the people must all say, “Amen.”
18“A curse on anyone who misdirects a blind man”: the people must all say, “Amen.”
19“A curse on anyone who withholds justice from the alien, the fatherless, and the widow”: the people must all say, “Amen.”
20“A curse on anyone who lies with his father's wife, for he brings shame upon his father”: the people must all say, “Amen.”
21“A curse on anyone who lies with any animal”: the people must all say, “Amen.”
22“A curse on anyone who lies with his sister, whether his father's daughter or his mother's daughter”: the people must all say, “Amen.”
23“A curse on anyone who lies with his wife's mother”: the people must all say, “Amen.”
24“A curse on anyone who strikes another in secret”: the people must all say, “Amen.”
25“A curse on anyone who accepts payment for killing an innocent person”: the people must all say, “Amen.”
26“A curse on anyone who does not fulfil this law by doing all that it prescribes”: the people must all say, “Amen.”