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The Law Inscribed on Stones

1 Now Moses, with the elders of Israel, commanded the people, saying: “Keep all the commandments which I command you today.
2 And it shall be, on the day awhen you cross over the Jordan to the land which the Lord your God is giving you, that byou shall set up for yourselves large stones, and whitewash them with lime.  
3 You shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have crossed over, that you may enter the land which the Lord your God is giving you, a‘a land flowing with milk and honey,’ just as the Lord God of your fathers promised you.  
4 Therefore it shall be, when you have crossed over the Jordan, that aon Mount Ebal you shall set up these stones, which I command you today, and you shall whitewash them with lime.  
5 And there you shall build an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones; ayou shall not use an iron tool on them.  
6 You shall build with whole stones the altar of the Lord your God, and offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Deuteronomy 27:2

THE PEOPLE ARE TO WRITE THE LAW UPON STONES. (Deuteronomy 27:1-10)

it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan—"Day" is often put for "time"; and it was not till some days after the passage that the following instructions were acted upon.

thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister—These stones were to be taken in their natural state, unhewn, and unpolished—the occasion on which they were used not admitting of long or elaborate preparation; and they were to be daubed over with paint or whitewash, to render them more conspicuous. Stones and even rocks are seen in Egypt and the peninsula of Sinai, containing inscriptions made three thousand years ago, in paint or plaister. By some similar method those stones may have been inscribed, and it is most probable that Moses learned the art from the Egyptians.




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