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.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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.
- KJV 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.
- BSB 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.
- NKJV 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.
- NLT Joshua then read to them all the blessings and curses Moses had written in the Book of Instruction.
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Quick answer
Joshua reads aloud all the words of the law, both the blessings and the curses. The covenant is proclaimed in full to the people.
Overview
Reading the blessings and curses sets before Israel the consequences of obedience and disobedience, as the law required. The public hearing of God's word binds the nation to its covenant Lord. It reminds every generation that life and death are set before them in the choice to heed or reject the word of God.
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- Neh 8:2–3Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.
- Neh 13:1On that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and it was found written in it that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever,
- Deut 31:10–12Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tents,
- Neh 9:3They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Yahweh their God a fourth part of the day; and a fourth part they confessed, and worshiped Yahweh their God.
- Deut 29:20–21Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
- Deut 27:14With a loud voice, the Levites shall say to all the men of Israel,
- Lev 26:1–46“‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up an engraved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God.
- Josh 1:8This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
- Deut 30:15–20Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil.
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Joshua — the same name as Jesus, 'the LORD saves' — leads God's people into their inheritance, a shadow of the greater Joshua who brings us into the true rest and the promised land that remains.
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