_AND MOSES WITH THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL COMMANDED THE PEOPLE, SAYING, KEEP ALL THE COMMANDMENTS WHICH I COMMAND YOU THIS DAY._ Keep all the commandments which I command you this day. This chapter should have commenced at Deuteronomy 26:16, for there Moses enters on the concluding part of the discourse... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT SHALL BE ON THE DAY WHEN YE SHALL PASS OVER JORDAN UNTO THE LAND WHICH THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH THEE, THAT THOU SHALT SET THEE UP GREAT STONES, AND PLAISTER THEM WITH PLAISTER:_ It shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan. Day is often put for time; and the meaning is, 'about the t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOU SHALT WRITE UPON THEM ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW, WHEN THOU ART PASSED OVER, THAT THOU MAYEST GO IN UNTO THE LAND WHICH THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH THEE, A LAND THAT FLOWETH WITH MILK AND HONEY; AS THE LORD GOD OF THY FATHERS HATH PROMISED THEE._ Thou shalt write upon them all the words of thi... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEREFORE IT SHALL BE WHEN YE BE GONE OVER JORDAN, THAT YE SHALL SET UP THESE STONES, WHICH I COMMAND YOU THIS DAY, IN MOUNT EBAL, AND THOU SHALT PLAISTER THEM WITH PLAISTER._ Ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal. The Samaritan version has, 'in mount Gerizim'-a... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THERE SHALT THOU BUILD AN ALTAR UNTO THE LORD THY GOD, AN ALTAR OF STONES: THOU SHALT NOT LIFT UP ANY IRON TOOL UPON THEM._ There shalt thou build an altar ... of whole stones. The stones were to be in their natural state, as if a chisel would communicate pollution to them. It is not certain w... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOU SHALT OFFER PEACE OFFERINGS, AND SHALT EAT THERE, AND REJOICE BEFORE THE LORD THY GOD._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THESE SHALL STAND UPON MOUNT GERIZIM TO BLESS THE PEOPLE, WHEN YE ARE COME OVER JORDAN; SIMEON, AND LEVI, AND JUDAH, AND ISSACHAR, AND JOSEPH, AND BENJAMIN:_ These shall stand upon mount Gerizim ... these shall stand upon mount Ebal. Those gigantic masses of limestone rock are the highest peaks of... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LEVITES SHALL SPEAK, AND SAY UNTO ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL WITH A LOUD VOICE,_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_CURSED BE HE THAT SETTETH LIGHT BY HIS FATHER OR HIS MOTHER. AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL SAY, AMEN._ Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. To this day every Jew, as well as Mussulman, who passes the tomb of Absalom, in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem, casts a stone at it, repeat... [ Continue Reading ]