²⁹ It shall happen, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.

¹² These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you are passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.

¹³ These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

¹⁴ The Levites shall answer, and tell all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

¹⁵ Cursed be the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. All the people shall answer and say, Amen.

¹⁶ Cursed be he who sets light by his father or his mother. All the people shall say, Amen.

¹⁷ Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. All the people shall say, Amen.

¹⁸ Cursed be he who makes the blind to wander out of the way. All the people shall say, Amen.

¹⁹ Cursed be he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow. All the people shall say, Amen.

²⁰ Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt. All the people shall say, Amen.

²¹ Cursed be he who lies with any manner of animal. All the people shall say, Amen.

²² Cursed be he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. All the people shall say, Amen.

²³ Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law. All the people shall say, Amen.

²⁴ Cursed be he who strikes his neighbor in secret. All the people shall say, Amen.

²⁵ Cursed be he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person. All the people shall say, Amen.

²⁶ Cursed be he who doesn't confirm the words of this law to do them. All the people shall say, Amen.

³⁰ Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal,

³¹ as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, on which no man had lifted up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings to Yahweh, and sacrificed peace-offerings.

³² He wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote, in the presence of the children of Israel.

³³ All Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, as well the foreigner as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.

³⁴ Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

³⁵ There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua didn't read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.