Deuteronomy 27:14

Easy-to-Read Version

"And the Levites will say to all the Israelites in a loud voice:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Levites will proclaim in a loud voice to every Israelite:

Hebrew Names Version
The Levites shall answer, and tell all the men of Yisra'el with a loud voice,

King James Version
And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

Lexham English Bible
And the Levites shall declare, and they shall say to each man of Israel with a loud voice,

English Standard Version
And the Levites shall declare to all the men of Israel in a loud voice:

New Century Version
The Levites will say to all the people of Israel in a loud voice:

New English Translation
"The Levites will call out to every Israelite with a loud voice:

Amplified Bible
"The Levites shall answer with a loud voice to all the men of Israel:

New American Standard Bible
"The Levites shall then respond and say to all the people of Israel with a loud voice,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Leuites shal answere and say vnto all the men of Israel with a loude voyce,

Legacy Standard Bible
The Levites shall then answer and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

Contemporary English Version
The people of the Levi tribe will speak each curse in a loud voice, then the rest of the people will agree to that curse by saying, "Amen!" Here are the curses: We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who makes an idol or worships idols, even secretly. The Lord is disgusted with idols. We ask the Lord to put a curse on all who do not show respect for their father and mother. We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who moves the rocks that mark property lines. We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who tells blind people to go the wrong way. We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who keeps the poor from getting justice, whether these poor are foreigners, widows, or orphans. We ask the Lord to put a curse on any man who sleeps with his father's wife; that man has shown no respect for his father's marriage. We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who has sex with an animal. We ask the Lord to put a curse on any man who sleeps with his sister or his half sister or his mother-in-law. We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who commits murder, even when there are no witnesses to the crime. We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who accepts money to murder an innocent victim. We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who refuses to obey his laws. And so, to each of these curses, the people will answer, "Amen!"

Complete Jewish Bible
The L'vi'im, speaking loudly, will proclaim to every man of Isra'el:

Darby Translation
And the Levites shall declare and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice:

George Lamsa Translation
And the Levites shall speak and say to all the people of Israel with a loud voice,

Good News Translation
The Levites will speak these words in a loud voice:

Literal Translation
And the Levites shall answer, and shall say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice:

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the Leuites shal begynne, and saye vnto euery man of Israel, wt a loude voyce:

American Standard Version
And the Levites shall answer, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

Bible in Basic English
Then the Levites are to say in a loud voice to all the men of Israel,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Leuites shall aunswere and say vnto all the men of Israel with a loude voyce:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice:

King James Version (1611)
And the Leuites shal speake, and say vnto all the men of Israel with a loud voyce:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Levites shall answer and say to all Israel with a loud voice,

English Revised Version
And the Levites shall answer, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

Berean Standard Bible
Then the Levites shall proclaim in a loud voice to every Israelite:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the dekenes schulen pronounce, and schulen seie `with hiy vois to alle the men of Israel,

Young's Literal Translation
`And the Levites have answered and said unto every man of Israel -- a loud voice:

Update Bible Version
And the Levites shall answer, and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

Webster's Bible Translation
And the Levites shall speak, and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

World English Bible
The Levites shall answer, and tell all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

New King James Version
"And the Levites shall speak with a loud voice and say to all the men of Israel:

New Living Translation
"Then the Levites will shout to all the people of Israel:

New Life Bible
The Levites will say with a loud voice to all the people of Israel:

New Revised Standard
Then the Levites shall declare in a loud voice to all the Israelites:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then shall the Levites respond and say unto every man of Israel with voice uplifted: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Levites shall pronounce, and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice:

Revised Standard Version
And the Levites shall declare to all the men of Israel with a loud voice:

THE MESSAGE
The Levites, acting as spokesmen and speaking loudly, will address Israel: God 's curse on anyone who carves or casts a god-image—an abomination to God made by a craftsman—and sets it up in secret. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who demeans a parent. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who moves his neighbor's boundary marker. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who misdirects a blind man on the road. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who interferes with justice due the foreigner, orphan, or widow. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who has sex with his father's wife; he has violated the woman who belongs to his father. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who has sex with an animal. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who has sex with his sister, the daughter of his father or mother. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who has sex with his mother-in-law. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who kills his neighbor in secret. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on whoever does not give substance to the words of this Revelation by living them. All respond: Yes. Absolutely.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The Levites shall then answer and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

Contextual Overview

¹¹ That day Moses also told the people, ¹² "After you have gone across the Jordan River, these tribes will stand on Mount Gerizim to read the blessings to the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin. ¹³ And these tribes will stand on Mount Ebal to read the curses: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. ¹⁴ "And the Levites will say to all the Israelites in a loud voice: ¹⁵ "‘Cursed is the one who makes a false god and puts it in its secret place. These false gods are only statues that some worker makes from wood, stone or metal. The Lord hates these things!' "Then all the people will answer, ‘Amen!' ¹⁶ "The Levites will say, ‘Cursed is the one who does not show respect to their father or their mother!' "Then all the people will answer, ‘Amen!' ¹⁷ "The Levites will say, ‘Cursed is the one who moves a neighbor's landmark!' "Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!' ¹⁸ "The Levites will say, ‘Cursed is the one who tricks a blind man into going the wrong way!' "Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!' ¹⁹ "The Levites will say, ‘Cursed is the one who does not give fair judgment for the foreigners, orphans, and widows!' "Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!' ²⁰ "The Levites will say, ‘Cursed is the one who shames his father by having sexual relations with his father's wife.' "Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 33:9, Deuteronomy 33:10, Joshua 8:33, Nehemiah 8:7, Nehemiah 8:8, Daniel 9:11, Malachi 2:7-9

Reciprocal: Joshua 8:34 - blessings Nehemiah 5:13 - Amen Nehemiah 13:25 - cursed

Cross-References

Genesis 25:28
Isaac loved Esau. He liked to eat the animals Esau killed. But Rebekah loved Jacob.

Genesis 27:2
Isaac said, "I am old. Maybe I will die soon.

Genesis 27:3
So take your bow and arrows and go hunting. Kill an animal for me to eat.

Genesis 27:4
Prepare the food that I love. Bring it to me, and I will eat it. Then I will bless you before I die."

Genesis 27:7
Your father said, ‘Kill an animal for me to eat. Prepare the food for me, and I will eat it. Then, with the Lord as witness, I will bless you before I die.'

Genesis 27:9
Go out to our goats and bring me two young ones. I will prepare them the way your father loves them.

Genesis 27:17
Then she got the food she had cooked and gave it to Jacob.

Genesis 27:31
Esau prepared the food in the special way his father loved. He brought it to his father and said, "Father, I am your son. Get up and eat the meat from the animals that I killed for you. Then you can bless me."

Psalms 141:4
Take away any desire to do evil. Keep me from joining the wicked in doing wrong. Help me stay away from their feasts.

Luke 21:34
"Be careful not to spend your time having parties and getting drunk or worrying about this life. If you do that, you won't be able to think straight, and the end might come when you are not ready.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel,.... Rather, "answer e and say"; not the whole tribe of Levi, for that stood on Mount Gerizim to bless, Deuteronomy 27:12; but the priests of that tribe who were placed in the valley, between the two mountains, and pronounced both the blessings and the curses in the hearing of all the tribes of Israel, to which they were to answer Amen; and that they might plainly hear, they expressed their words

with a loud voice, clearly and distinctly, as follow.

e ענו "respondebunt", Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Joshua 8:32-35. The solemnity was apparently designed only for the single occasion on which it actually took place.

Deuteronomy 27:12, Deuteronomy 27:13

The tribes appointed to stand on Gerizim to bless the people all sprang from the two wives of Jacob, Leah and Rachel. All the four tribes which sprang from the handmaids Zilpah and Bilhah are located on Ebal. But in order, as it would seem, to effect an equal division, two tribes are added to the latter from the descendants of the wives, that of Reuben, probably because he forfeited his primogeniture Genesis 49:4; and of Zebulun, apparently because he was the youngest son of Leah.

The transaction presents itself as a solemn renewal of the covenant made by God with Abraham and Isaac, but more especially with Jacob and his family. Accordingly the genealogical basis of the “twelve patriarchs” (compare Acts 7:12; Revelation 7:4 ff), the sons of Jacob, is here assumed. The tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh are merged in the name of Joseph, their father; and Levi regains on this occasion his place collaterally with the others. “The Levites” of Deuteronomy 27:14 are no doubt “the priests the Levites” (compareJoshua 8:33; Joshua 8:33), in whom the ministerial character attaching to the tribe was more particularly manifested. It is noteworthy that the group of tribes which stood on Gerizim far exceeded the other in numbers and in importance, thus perhaps indicating that even by the Law the blessing should at length prevail.

Deuteronomy 27:15

The “Amen” attested the conviction of the utterers that the sentences to which they responded were true, just, and certain; so in Numbers 5:22, and in our own Commination Office, which is modelled after this ordinance of Moses.

Deuteronomy 27:15-26

Twelve curses against transgressions of the covenant. The first eleven are directed against special sins which are selected by way of example, the last comprehensively sums up in general terms and condemns all and every offence against God’s Law. Compare the marginal references.