Deuteronomy 27:3

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:

Barnes' Notes

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Deuteronomy 27:3

All the words of this law - i. e. all the laws revealed from God to the people by Moses, regarded by the Jews as 613 (compare Numbers 15:38 note). The exhibition of laws in this manner on stones, pillars, or tables, was familiar to the ancients. The laws were probably graven in the stone ("very plainly," Deuteronomy 27:8 is by some rendered "scoop it out well" ), as are for the most part the Egyptian hieroglyphics, the "plaister" being afterward added to protect the inscription from the weather.

**Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Deuteronomy 27:3:**

Deuteronomy 27:1
Deuteronomy 28:15-68
Joshua 8:30-35

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