CHAPTER XXVII _Moses commands the people to write the law upon stones, when_ _they shall come to the promised land_, 1-3. _And to set up these stones on Mount_ Ebal, 4; _and to build an altar of unhewn stones, and to offer on it_ _burnt-offerings and peace-offerings_, 5-7. _The words to be wri... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 27:2. _THOU SHALT SET THEE UP GREAT STONES_] How many is not specified, possibly _twelve_, and possibly only a sufficient number to make a surface large enough to write the blessings and the curses on. _PLASTER THEM WITH PLASTER_] Perhaps the original ושדת אתם בשיד _vesadta otham... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 27:3. _ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW_] After all that has been said by ingenious critics concerning the _law_ ordered to be written on these stones, some supposing the whole Mosaic law to be intended, others, only the _decalogue_, I am fully of opinion that the (תורה _torah_) law or or... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 27:4. _SET UP THESE STONES - IN MOUNT EBAL_] So the present Hebrew text, but the Samaritan has _Mount Gerizim_. Dr. Kennicott has largely defended the reading of the Samaritan in his second dissertation on the _present state of the Hebrew text_, and Dr. Parry has defended the Hebr... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 27:12. _THESE SHALL STAND UPON MOUNT GERIZIM TO BLESS THE_ _PEOPLE_] Instead of _upon Mount_, c., we may translate _by_, as the particle על _al_ is sometimes used for we do not find that the tribes did stand _on_ either mount, for in Joshua 8:33, when this direction was reduced to... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 27:15. _CURSED BE THE MAN, C._] Other laws, previously made, had prohibited all these things and penal sanctions were necessarily understood; but here God more openly declares that he who breaks them _is cursed _- falls under the wrath and indignation of his Maker and Judge. Exodus... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 27:16. _SETTETH LIGHT BY HIS FATHER OR HIS MOTHER._] Exodus 20:12, Exodus 20:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 27:17. _REMOVETH HIS NEIGHBOUR'S LANDMARK._] Deuteronomy 19:14, Deuteronomy 19:14, and on _"_Exodus 20:17_"_. And for all the rest of these curses, see the notes on Exodus 20:1, and the observations at the end of it. Exodus 20:26, Exodus 20:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 27:18. _THE BLIND TO WANDER OUT OF THE WAY._] A sin against the sixth commandment. Exodus 20:13, Exodus 20:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 27:26. _THAT CONFIRMETH NOT ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW_] The word כל _col_, ALL, is not found in any _printed_ copy of the _Hebrew_ text; but the _Samaritan_ preserves it, and so do _six_ MSS. in the collections of _Kennicott_ and _De Rossi_, besides several copies of the _Chaldee T... [ Continue Reading ]