1 Moses and the elders of Israel gave the people this charge: "Keep every commandment I give you today.
2 On the day you cross the Jordan into the land the LORD your God is giving you, set up some large stones and plaster them with lime.
3 After you have crossed over, write on them all the words of this law, so that you may enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you.
4 When you have crossed the Jordan, set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I command you today, and plaster them with lime.
5 Build an altar there to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. Do not use any iron tool on them.
6 Build the altar of the LORD your God with whole, uncut stones, and offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God.
7 Sacrifice peace offerings there, eat them, and rejoice in the presence of the LORD your God.
8 On the stones write all the words of this law, plainly and clearly."
9 Then Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, "Be quiet, Israel, and listen! Today you have become the people of the LORD your God.
10 Therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God and carry out his commandments and statutes, which I give you today."
11 That same day Moses charged the people:
12 "When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes are to stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
13 And these tribes are to stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
14 The Levites are to call out in a loud voice to all the men of Israel:
15 'Cursed is anyone who makes a carved or cast idol, a thing detestable to the LORD, made by a craftsman's hands, and sets it up in secret.' Then all the people are to respond, 'Amen.'
16 'Cursed is anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.' And all the people are to say, 'Amen.'
17 'Cursed is anyone who shifts his neighbor's boundary marker.' And all the people are to say, 'Amen.'
18 'Cursed is anyone who makes a blind man wander off the road.' And all the people are to say, 'Amen.'
19 'Cursed is anyone who twists the justice owed to the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow.' And all the people are to say, 'Amen.'
20 'Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his father's wife, for he has uncovered his father's skirt.' And all the people are to say, 'Amen.'
21 'Cursed is anyone who has sexual relations with any animal.' And all the people are to say, 'Amen.'
22 'Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his sister, whether his father's daughter or his mother's daughter.' And all the people are to say, 'Amen.'
23 'Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his mother-in-law.' And all the people are to say, 'Amen.'
24 'Cursed is anyone who strikes down his neighbor in secret.' And all the people are to say, 'Amen.'
25 'Cursed is anyone who accepts a bribe to strike down a person whose blood is innocent.' And all the people are to say, 'Amen.'
26 'Cursed is anyone who does not uphold the words of this law by carrying them out.' And all the people are to say, 'Amen.'"