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31 as Moses Yahweh’s servant commanded the Israelites,[a] as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses: “an altar of unhewn[b] stones on which no one has wielded[c] an iron implement.”[d] And they offered burnt offerings on it and sacrificed fellowship offerings. 32 And there Joshua wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he[e] had written, in the presence of the Israelites.[f] 33 Then all Israel, foreigner as well as native,[g] with the elders, officials, and judges stood on either side[h] 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.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 8:31 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  2. Joshua 8:31 Or “whole”
  3. Joshua 8:31 Literally “waved over them”
  4. Joshua 8:31 See Exod 20:25
  5. Joshua 8:32 That is, Moses
  6. Joshua 8:32 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  7. Joshua 8:33 Literally “as the alien as the native”
  8. Joshua 8:33 Literally “from this and from this”