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The Mishnah told that after they had completed all the blessings and curses, the Israelites brought the stones that Moses directed them to set up in Deuteronomy 27:2–4, built the altar and plastered it with plaster, and inscribed on it all the words of the Torah in 70 languages, as Deuteronomy 27:8 says, "very plainly."
The Admonitions of Leviticus 26:14–38 are paralleled in Deuteronomy 28:15–68. The curses in Leviticus are considered more severe than those in Deuteronomy, for "the former [were] spoken by Moses in the name of God and the latter by Moses on his own initiative; the former is worded in first person and addressed to the Jews in plural while ...
deuteronomy 27 Moses and the elders charge the people to build an altar to God, and to offer on it burnt offerings . Moses charges the people that half of the tribes are to stand on Mount Gerizim (pictured, left) when the blessings are spoken , and half the tribes stand on Mount Ebal (pictured, right) when the curses are spoken.
The catechism of curses of the Law found in Deuteronomy 27. [3] A double amen ("amen and amen") occurs in Psalm 89 (Psalm 41:13; 72:19; 89:52), to confirm the words and invoke the fulfillment of them. [27] Amen occurs in several doxology formulas in Romans 1:25, 9:5, 11:36, 15:33, and several times in Chapter 16. [3]
Deuteronomy was formed by a complex process that reached probably from the 7th century BCE to the early 5th. [11] It consists of a historical prologue; an introduction; the Deuteronomic Code followed by blessings and curses; and a conclusion. [12] The book's core is the law code (chapters 12–26).
A commentary in the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges argues that "the face of Gerizim, the mount of blessing, is the more fertile; the opposite face of Ebal, the mount of curse, much the more bare", [13] but the Pulpit Commentary states that both Gerizim and Ebal are "equally barren-looking, though neither is wholly destitute of culture ...
A suggested comparison of the treaty structure with the book of Deuteronomy is as follows: Preamble (cf. Deuteronomy 1:1–4) Historical prologue (cf. Deuteronomy 1:5–3:29) Stipulations (cf. Deuteronomy 4–26) Document clause (cf. Deuteronomy 27) List of gods as witnesses (notably lacking in Deuteronomy) Sanctions: curses and blessings (cf ...
In the latter parts of the Book of Deuteronomy, when Moses' death was near, he prophesied about the destiny of the people of Israel.Their destiny would not be promising – curses would come upon them and they would go into exile – but when they return to their homeland later, their situation will be as good as it had been in the past, and so said Moses: