Joshua 8:34

Then Joshua read out the whole Law—all the blessings and curses recorded in the book of the Law.

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In The King James Version

And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

In Context

33All the Israelites, the elders, the officers, and the judges stood in two groups facing each other with the priests, the Levites, and the Ark of the Lord's Agreement between them. (Included were the foreigners as well as the native born.) Half of them stood in front of Mount Gerizim, and half in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses had ordered, for the blessing of the people this first time.

35Joshua read out every word of Moses' instruction to the whole Israelite assembly, including the women, the children, and the foreigners who lived among them.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:1“Don't make yourselves idols anywhere in your land and bow down to worship them, whether they are images or sacred pillars or stone sculptures. For I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 28:28The Lord will drive you mad; he will blind you and confuse you

Deuteronomy 30:15Listen! Today I've placed a choice before you: life and what's good, or death and what's evil.

Deuteronomy 31:11when all the Israelites come before the Lord your God at the place he will choose, you are to read this law for everyone to hear.

Nehemiah 8:2On the first day of the seventh month, Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly—men and women, and all those children who could listen and understand.

Nehemiah 13:1One day when the Book of Moses was being read to the people, the section was found where it was written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever be allowed into the assembly of God,

Matthew Henry on Joshua 8:31-35

Sacrifice Offered on Mount Ebal; The Reading of the Law. ( b. c. 1451.) 30 Then Joshua built an altar unto the Lord God of Israel in mount Ebal, 31 As Moses the servant of the Lord commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the Lord , and sacrificed peace offerings. 32 And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence… Read the whole commentary →

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