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Text -- Joshua 8:29-35 (NET)
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8:29 He hung the king of Ai on a tree , leaving him exposed until evening . At sunset Joshua ordered that his corpse be taken down from the tree . They threw it down at the entrance of the city gate and erected over it a large pile of stones (it remains to this very day ).
Covenant Renewal
8:30 Then Joshua built an altar for the Lord God of Israel on Mount Ebal ,
8:31 just as Moses the Lord’s servant had commanded the Israelites . As described in the law scroll of Moses , it was made with uncut stones untouched by an iron tool . They offered burnt sacrifices on it and sacrificed tokens of peace .
8:32 There , in the presence of the Israelites , Joshua inscribed on the stones a duplicate of the law written by Moses .
8:33 All the people , rulers , leaders , and judges were standing on either side of the ark , in front of the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord . Both resident foreigners and native Israelites were there. Half the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and the other half in front of Mount Ebal , as Moses the Lord’s servant had previously instructed to them to do for the formal blessing ceremony.
8:34 Then Joshua read aloud all the words of the law , including the blessings and the curses , just as they are written in the law scroll .
8:35 Joshua read aloud every commandment Moses had given before the whole assembly of Israel , including the women , children , and resident foreigners who lived among them.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Ai |
HEAP |
Ebal |
DEUTERONOMY |
Israel |
Joshua |
God |
Canaan |
Gerizim |
Commandments |
Law |
MOSES |
BIBLE, THE, IV CANONICITY |
LAW, JUDICIAL |
TABERNACLE |
Curses of the Mosaic Law |
Worship |
Word of God |
Altar |
SACRIFICE, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, 2 |
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NET Notes: Jos 8:32 Heb “and he wrote there on the stones a duplicate of the law of Moses which he wrote before the sons of Israel.”
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