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Then Joshua built an altar to Jehovah, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal,

as Moses, the servant of Jehovah, commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the book of the Law of Moses; an altar of whole stones, on which had been wielded no iron. And they offered upon it burnt offerings to Jehovah, and offeredpeace offerings.

And he wrote there on the stones the copy of the Law of Moses which he had written in the presence of the sons of Israel.

And all Israel, and its elders, and authorities, and its judges were standing on this side, the alien as well as the native, and on that of the ark, before the priests, the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, half of themin front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Jehovah had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.

And afterward he read all the Words of the Law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that was written in the book of the Law.

There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the aliens that walked among them.