the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Deuteronomy 27:14
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The Levites shall then answer and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice,
"The Levites shall then answer and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice,
And the Leuites shall aunswere and say vnto all the men of Israel with a loude voyce:
"And the Levites will say to all the Israelites in a loud voice:
And the Levites shall answer, and shall say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice:
And the Levites shall declare to all the men of Israel with a loud voice:
The Levites shall answer, and tell all the men of Israel with a loud voice,
And the Leuites shal speake, and say vnto all the men of Israel with a loud voyce:
And the Leuites shal begynne, and saye vnto euery man of Israel, wt a loude voyce:
The Levites, acting as spokesmen and speaking loudly, will address Israel: God 's curse on anyone who carves or casts a god-image—an abomination to God made by a craftsman—and sets it up in secret. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who demeans a parent. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who moves his neighbor's boundary marker. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who misdirects a blind man on the road. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who interferes with justice due the foreigner, orphan, or widow. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who has sex with his father's wife; he has violated the woman who belongs to his father. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who has sex with an animal. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who has sex with his sister, the daughter of his father or mother. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who has sex with his mother-in-law. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who kills his neighbor in secret. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on anyone who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person. All respond: Yes. Absolutely. God 's curse on whoever does not give substance to the words of this Revelation by living them. All respond: Yes. Absolutely.
And the Levites shall answer, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice,
Then the Levites are to say in a loud voice to all the men of Israel,
And the Levites shall answer, and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice,
And the Levites shall speak, and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice,
"The Levites will call out to every Israelite with a loud voice:
"And the Levites shall speak with a loud voice and say to all the men of Israel:
The people of the Levi tribe will speak each curse in a loud voice, then the rest of the people will agree to that curse by saying, "Amen!" Here are the curses: We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who makes an idol or worships idols, even secretly. The Lord is disgusted with idols. We ask the Lord to put a curse on all who do not show respect for their father and mother. We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who moves the rocks that mark property lines. We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who tells blind people to go the wrong way. We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who keeps the poor from getting justice, whether these poor are foreigners, widows, or orphans. We ask the Lord to put a curse on any man who sleeps with his father's wife; that man has shown no respect for his father's marriage. We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who has sex with an animal. We ask the Lord to put a curse on any man who sleeps with his sister or his half sister or his mother-in-law. We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who commits murder, even when there are no witnesses to the crime. We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who accepts money to murder an innocent victim. We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who refuses to obey his laws. And so, to each of these curses, the people will answer, "Amen!"
The L'vi'im, speaking loudly, will proclaim to every man of Isra'el:
And the Levites shall declare and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice:
And the Leuites shal answere and say vnto all the men of Israel with a loude voyce,
And the Levites shall speak and say to all the people of Israel with a loud voice,
The Levites will speak these words in a loud voice:
"The Levites shall answer with a loud voice to all the men of Israel:
The Levites shall answer, and tell all the men of Yisra'el with a loud voice,
And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice:
"Then the Levites will shout to all the people of Israel:
The Levites will say with a loud voice to all the people of Israel:
Then the Levites shall declare in a loud voice to all the Israelites:
And the Levites shall answer and say to all Israel with a loud voice,
And the Levites shall answer, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice,
Then the Levites shall proclaim in a loud voice to every Israelite:
Then shall the Levites respond and say unto every man of Israel with voice uplifted: -
And the Levites shall pronounce, and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice:
And the Levites shall declare, and they shall say to each man of Israel with a loud voice,
And the Levites shall declare to all the men of Israel in a loud voice:
"The Levites shall then respond and say to all the people of Israel with a loud voice,
The Levites will say to all the people of Israel in a loud voice:
The Levites will proclaim in a loud voice to every Israelite:
And the dekenes schulen pronounce, and schulen seie `with hiy vois to alle the men of Israel,
`And the Levites have answered and said unto every man of Israel -- a loud voice:
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Deuteronomy 33:9, Deuteronomy 33:10, Joshua 8:33, Nehemiah 8:7, Nehemiah 8:8, Daniel 9:11, Malachi 2:7-9
Reciprocal: Joshua 8:34 - blessings Nehemiah 5:13 - Amen Nehemiah 13:25 - cursed
Cross-References
And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.
And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:
Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;
And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the Lord before my death.
Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:
And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.
Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel,.... Rather, "answer e and say"; not the whole tribe of Levi, for that stood on Mount Gerizim to bless, Deuteronomy 27:12; but the priests of that tribe who were placed in the valley, between the two mountains, and pronounced both the blessings and the curses in the hearing of all the tribes of Israel, to which they were to answer Amen; and that they might plainly hear, they expressed their words
with a loud voice, clearly and distinctly, as follow.
e ענו "respondebunt", Montanus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Compare Joshua 8:32-35. The solemnity was apparently designed only for the single occasion on which it actually took place.
Deuteronomy 27:12, Deuteronomy 27:13
The tribes appointed to stand on Gerizim to bless the people all sprang from the two wives of Jacob, Leah and Rachel. All the four tribes which sprang from the handmaids Zilpah and Bilhah are located on Ebal. But in order, as it would seem, to effect an equal division, two tribes are added to the latter from the descendants of the wives, that of Reuben, probably because he forfeited his primogeniture Genesis 49:4; and of Zebulun, apparently because he was the youngest son of Leah.
The transaction presents itself as a solemn renewal of the covenant made by God with Abraham and Isaac, but more especially with Jacob and his family. Accordingly the genealogical basis of the “twelve patriarchs” (compare Acts 7:12; Revelation 7:4 ff), the sons of Jacob, is here assumed. The tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh are merged in the name of Joseph, their father; and Levi regains on this occasion his place collaterally with the others. “The Levites” of Deuteronomy 27:14 are no doubt “the priests the Levites” (compareJoshua 8:33; Joshua 8:33), in whom the ministerial character attaching to the tribe was more particularly manifested. It is noteworthy that the group of tribes which stood on Gerizim far exceeded the other in numbers and in importance, thus perhaps indicating that even by the Law the blessing should at length prevail.
Deuteronomy 27:15
The “Amen” attested the conviction of the utterers that the sentences to which they responded were true, just, and certain; so in Numbers 5:22, and in our own Commination Office, which is modelled after this ordinance of Moses.
Deuteronomy 27:15-26
Twelve curses against transgressions of the covenant. The first eleven are directed against special sins which are selected by way of example, the last comprehensively sums up in general terms and condemns all and every offence against God’s Law. Compare the marginal references.
