Joshua 8:32

Green's Literal Translation

And he wrote there on the stones the copy of the Law of Moses which he had written in the presence of the sons of Israel.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
And he wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written, in the presence of the sons of Israel.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written, in the presence of the sons of Israel.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he wrote there vpon the stones a rehearsal of the lawe of Moyses, and wrote it in the presence of the chyldren of Israel.

Easy-to-Read Version
There Joshua copied onto the stones the law Moses had written down. This was for all the people of Israel to see.

Revised Standard Version
And there, in the presence of the people of Israel, he wrote upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written.

World English Bible
He wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote, in the presence of the children of Israel.

King James Version (1611)
And he wrote there vpon the stones a copie of the Lawe of Moses, which hee wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

King James Version
And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and there vpon the stones he wrote the seconde lawe of Moses, which he wrote before the childre of Israel.

American Standard Version
And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote, in the presence of the children of Israel.

Bible in Basic English
And he made there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, writing it before the eyes of the children of Israel.

Update Bible Version
And he wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote, in the presence of the sons of Israel.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

New English Translation
There, in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua inscribed on the stones a duplicate of the law written by Moses.

New King James Version
And there, in the presence of the children of Israel, he wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written.

Complete Jewish Bible
He wrote there on the stones a copy of the Torah of Moshe, inscribing it in the presence of the people of Isra'el.

Darby Translation
And he wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written before the children of Israel.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Also he wrote there vpon the stones, a rehearsall of the Lawe of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

George Lamsa Translation
And he wrote there upon the stones of the altar a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

Good News Translation
There, with the Israelites looking on, Joshua made on the stones a copy of the Law which Moses had written.

Amplified Bible
And there, in the presence of the sons of Israel, Joshua wrote on the stones a copy of the Law of Moses which Moses had written.

Hebrew Names Version
He wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moshe, which he wrote, in the presence of the children of Yisra'el.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote before the children of Israel.

New Living Translation
And as the Israelites watched, Joshua copied onto the stones of the altar the instructions Moses had given them.

New Life Bible
There Joshua wrote on the stones the Law of Moses in front of the people of Israel.

New Revised Standard
And there, in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Joshua wrote upon the stones a copy of the law, even the law of Moses, before the children of Israel.

English Revised Version
And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote, in the presence of the children of Israel.

Berean Standard Bible
And there in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua inscribed on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then wrote he there, upon the stones, a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote, in the presence of the sons of Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he wrote upon stones, the Deuteronomy of the law of Moses, which he had ordered before the children of Israel.

Lexham English Bible
And there Joshua wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written, in the presence of the Israelites.

English Standard Version
And there, in the presence of the people of Israel, he wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written.

New American Standard Bible
And he wrote there on the stones a copy of the Law of Moses, which he had written, in the presence of the sons of Israel.

New Century Version
There Joshua wrote the teachings of Moses on stones for all the people of Israel to see.

Christian Standard Bible®
There on the stones, Joshua copied the law of Moses, which he had written in the presence of the Israelites.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he wroot on the stoonys the Deutronomye of Moises lawe, `which he hadde declarid bifor the sones of Israel.

Young's Literal Translation
and he writeth there on the stones the copy of the law of Moses, which he hath written in the presence of the sons of Israel.

Contextual Overview

³⁰ Then Joshua built an altar to Jehovah, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal, ³¹ as Moses, the servant of Jehovah, commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the book of the Law of Moses; an altar of whole stones, on which had been wielded no iron. And they offered upon it burnt offerings to Jehovah, and offeredpeace offerings. ³² And he wrote there on the stones the copy of the Law of Moses which he had written in the presence of the sons of Israel. ³³ And all Israel, and its elders, and authorities, and its judges were standing on this side, the alien as well as the native, and on that of the ark, before the priests, the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, half of themin front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Jehovah had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel. ³⁴ 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. ³⁵ There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the aliens that walked among them.

Bible Verse Review
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Deuteronomy 27:2, Deuteronomy 27:3, Deuteronomy 27:8

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses,.... Not upon the stones of which the altar was made, though some have so thought; but upon other stones erected in the form of a pillar, and plastered over, Deuteronomy 27:4; which copy of the law was not the whole book of Deuteronomy, as some, at least only an abstract of the laws in it; but rather the decalogue, as Abarbinel; or the blessings and curses later read, as Ben Gersom:

which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel: they being witness of it, that he did what was enjoined.

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 8:32. A copy of the law of Moses — משנה תורת mishneh torath, the repetition of the law; that is, a copy of the blessings and curses, as commanded by Moses; not a copy of the Decalogue, as some imagine, nor of the book of Deuteronomy, as others think; much less of the whole Pentateuch; but merely of that part which contained the blessings and curses, and which was to be read on this solemn occasion. Deuteronomy 27:3.