Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister.
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Interpretation
As soon as they were come into Canaan, they must set up a monument, on which they must write the words of this law. They must set up an altar.
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This thought runs through Deuteronomy 27:1-5.
Glossary
- Jordan Place
- Biblical river. Modern identification: Jordan River.
- Mount Ebal Place
- Stony. (1. ) A mountain 3,076 feet above the level of the sea, and 1,200 feet above the level of the valley, on the north side of which stood the city of Shechem (q. v. ). On this mountain six of the tribes. Modern identification: Mount Ebal.