Joshua 8:34

Bible in Basic English

And after, he gave them all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, as it is all recorded in the book of the law;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Afterward, Joshua read aloud all the words of the law—the blessings as well as the curses—according to all that is written in the book of the law.

Hebrew Names Version
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.

King James Version
And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

Lexham English Bible
And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and the curses, according to all that was written in the scroll of the law.

English Standard Version
And 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.

New Century Version
Then Joshua read all the words of the teachings, the blessings and the curses, exactly as they were written in the Book of the Teachings.

New English Translation
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.

Amplified Bible
Then afterward Joshua read all the words of the law, the blessing and curse, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law.

New American Standard Bible
Then afterward he read all the words of the Law, the blessing and the curse, according to everything that is written in the Book of the Law.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then afterwarde hee read all the wordes of the Lawe, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the booke of the Lawe.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then 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.

Complete Jewish Bible
After this, he read all the words of the Torah, the blessing and the curse, according to everything written in the book of the Torah.

Darby Translation
And afterwards 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.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then Joshua read all the words from the law. He read the blessings and the curses. He read everything the way it was written in the Book of the Law.

George Lamsa Translation
And afterward Joshua read all the words of the law, the blessings and the cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

Good News Translation
Joshua then read aloud the whole Law, including the blessings and the curses, just as they are written in the book of the Law.

Literal Translation
And afterward he read all the Words of the Law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that was written in the book of the Law.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Afterwarde caused he to proclame all the wordes of the lawe of the blessynge and cursynge, as it is wrytten in the boke of the lawe.

American Standard Version
And 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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Afterwarde he read all the wordes of the lawe, the blessinges, and cursinges, accordyng to all that is written in the booke of the lawe.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And 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.

King James Version (1611)
And afterward hee read all the words of the Law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the booke of the Law.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And afterwards Joshua read accordingly all the words of this law, the blessings and the curses, according to all things written in the law of Moses.

English Revised Version
And 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.

Berean Standard Bible
Afterward, Joshua read aloud all the words of the law-the blessings and the curses-according to all that is written in the book of the law.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Aftir these thingis he redde alle the wordis of blessyng and of cursyng, and alle thingis that weren writun in the book of lawe.

Young's Literal Translation
And afterwards he hath proclaimed all the words of the law, the blessing and the reviling, according to all that is written in the book of the law;

Update Bible Version
And 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.

Webster's Bible Translation
And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

World English Bible
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.

New King James Version
And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and the cursings, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law.

New Living Translation
Joshua then read to them all the blessings and curses Moses had written in the Book of Instruction.

New Life Bible
After this Joshua read all the words of the Law, the good and the bad that will happen. He read all that is written in the book of the Law.

New Revised Standard
And afterward he read all the words of the law, blessings and curses, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, after that, read he all the words of the law, the blessing and the cursing, - according to all that was written in the scroll of the law.

Douay-Rheims Bible
After this, he read all the words of the blessing and the cursing, and all things that were written in the book of the law.

Revised Standard Version
And 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.

THE MESSAGE
After that, he read out everything written in The Revelation, the Blessing and the Curse, everything in the Book of The Revelation. There wasn't a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua didn't read to the entire congregation—men, women, children, and foreigners who had been with them on the journey.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then 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.

Contextual Overview

³⁰ Then Joshua put up an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal, ³¹ In the way ordered by Moses, the servant of the Lord, as it is recorded in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, untouched by any iron instrument: and on it they made burned offerings and peace-offerings to the Lord. ³² And he made there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, writing it before the eyes of the children of Israel. ³³ And all Israel, those who were Israelites by birth, as well as the men from other lands living with them, and their responsible men and their overseers and judges, took their places round the ark, in front of the priests, the Levites, whose work it was to take up the ark of the Lord's agreement; half of them were stationed in front of Mount Gerizim and half in front of Mount Ebal, in agreement with the orders for the blessing of the children of Israel which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had given. ³⁴ And after, he gave them all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, as it is all recorded in the book of the law; ³⁵ Reading to all the meeting of Israel, with the women and the children and the men from other lands who were living among them, every word of the orders which Moses had given.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he read: Deuteronomy 31:10-12, Nehemiah 8:2, Nehemiah 8:3, Nehemiah 9:3, Nehemiah 13:1

blessings: Leviticus 26:1-46, Deuteronomy 27:14-26, Deuteronomy 28:1-68, Deuteronomy 29:20, Deuteronomy 29:21, Deuteronomy 30:15-20

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 27:12 - upon mount Gerizim Deuteronomy 31:11 - shalt read Joshua 8:31 - as it is

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And afterwards he read all the words of the law,.... Not the whole Pentateuch, nor the whole book of Deuteronomy, but either some parts of it, the decalogue, or whatsoever he had written on the stones, and as follows:

the blessings and cursings, according to all that was written in the book of the law; Deuteronomy 27:14;

Deuteronomy 27:14- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The account of this solemnity is very brief. An acquaintance with Deuteronomy 27:0 is evidently presupposed; and the three several acts of which the solemnity consisted are only so far distinctly named as is necessary to show that the commands of Moses there given were fully carried out by Joshua.

It is difficult to escape the conviction that these verses are here out of their proper and original place. The connection between Joshua 8:29, and Joshua 9:1, is natural and obvious; and in Joshua 9:3, the fraud of the Gibeonites is represented as growing out of the alarm caused by the fall of Jericho and Ai. It is, moreover, extremely unlikely that a solemnity of this nature in the very center of the country should be undertaken by Joshua while the whole surrounding district was in the hands of the enemy; or that, if undertaken, it would have been carried out unmolested. “And the strangers that were conversant among them” Joshua 8:35, were present at it. The distance fromm Gilgal in the Jordan valley to Mount Ebal is fully 30 miles, unless - as is unlikely - another Gilgal (Deuteronomy 11:29 note) be meant; and so vast a host, with its non-effective followers Joshua 8:35, could certainly not have accomplished a march like this through a difficult country and a hostile population in less than three days. Moreover in Joshua 9:6; Joshua 10:6, Joshua 10:15, Joshua 10:43, the Israelites are spoken of as still encamping at Gilgal.

It is on the whole likely that, for these and other reasons, this passage does not, in our present Bible, stand in its proper context; and it has been conjectured that the place from which these six verses have been transferred is the end of Joshua 11:0: The “then” with which Joshua 8:30 opens in our present text may well have served to introduce the account of the solemnity on Gerizim and Ebal at the end of the record of Joshua’s victories, to which indeed it forms a suitable climax.

Joshua 8:32

See the note marginal reference.

Joshua 8:34

All the words of the law - See Deuteronomy 31:11 ff It would seem that Joshua, on the present occasion, must have read at least all the legislative portion of the Pentateuch before the people (compare on Deuteronomy 27:3). The terms of this verse cannot be satisfactorily explained as importing only the blessings and curses of Deut. 27–28.