With a loud voice, the Levites shall say to all the men of Israel,
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With a loud voice, the Levites shall say to all the men of Israel,
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And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice,
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And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice:
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 27:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Daniel 9:11 Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice. “Therefore the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us; for we have sinned against him.
- Deuteronomy 33:9-10 He said of his father, and of his mother, ‘I have not seen him.’ He didn’t acknowledge his brothers, nor did he know his own children; for they have observed your word, and keep your covenant. They shall teach Jacob your ordinances, and Israel your law. They shall put incense before you, and whole burnt offering on your altar.
- Joshua 8:33 All Israel, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark before the Levitical priests, who carried the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.
- Nehemiah 8:7-8 Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law; and the people stayed in their place. They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.
- Malachi 2:7-9 For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies. But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The Levites, i.e. some of the Levites, to wit,…
The Levites, i.e. some of the Levites, to wit, the priests,
which bare the ark, as it is expressed, Jos 8:33, for the body of the Levites stood upon Mount Gerizim, Deu 27:12; but these stood in the valley between Gerizim and Ebal, looking towards the one or the other mountain as they pronounced either the blessings or the curses, as may be gathered from Jos 8:33.
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With a loud voice; so as they might be heard by a great number of the people, by whom the rest were informed and directed by some signal when they should answer.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all…
And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel,.... Rather, "answer (e) and say"; not the whole tribe of Levi, for that stood on Mount Gerizim to bless, Deu 27:12; but the priests of that tribe who were placed in the valley, between the two mountains, and pronounced both the blessings and the curses in the hearing of all the tribes of Israel, to which they were to answer Amen; and that they might plainly hear, they expressed their words
with a loud voice, clearly and distinctly, as follow.
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(e) "respondebunt", Montanus.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The Levites - Some of the Levites, namely, the…
The Levites - Some of the Levites, namely, the priests, who bare the ark, as it is expressed Josh. viii, 33, for the body of the Levites stood upon mount Gerizzim, ver. 12. But these stood in the valley between Gerizzim and Ebal, looking towards the one or the other mountain as they pronounced either the blessings or the curses.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Deu 27:14. The Levites — Some of the Levites,…
Deu 27:14. The Levites — Some of the Levites, namely, the priests, who bare the ark, as it is expressed Jos 8:33, for the body of the Levites stood upon mount Gerizim, Deu 27:12. But these stood in the valley between Gerizim and Ebal, looking toward the one or the other mountain as they pronounced either the blessings or the curses.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Pronounce. Hebrew, "answer," as the older Protestant editions, 1540,…
Pronounce. Hebrew, "answer," as the older Protestant editions, 1540, &c., had it; though "our last translators, 1613, says Kennicott, in this, as in several other instances, altered for the worse," shall speak. A select company of Levites in the valley repeated what had been declared from Hebal.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 14-26. The Levites shall speak — These twelve curses…
14-26. The Levites shall speak — These twelve curses were to be pronounced against transgressors of the law. The first is against those who make graven or molten images. Comp. Exo_20:4. The second is against those who are lacking in respect to parents. Comp. Exo_21:17 and Lev_19:3. The third is against those who remove boundaries. Comp. Deu_19:14. The fourth, against those who lead the blind astray. Comp. Lev_19:14. The fifth, against those who wrong the stranger, the orphan, or the widow. Comp. Deu_24:17. The sixth, against unchastity in respect to the wife of the father. Lev_18:8. The seventh is against unnatural crime. Comp. Lev_18:8. The eighth, against unchastity in the case of incest with a sister. Comp. Lev_18:9. The ninth is also against unchastity. In this case with the mother-in-law or other near relative. Comp. Lev_18:17. The tenth is against the secret murder of a neighbour. Comp. Deu_19:11. The eleventh, against the one who takes a bribe to judicially condemn the innocent. Comp. Exo_23:7-8. Finally, the twelfth is to be pronounced against him who does not keep the law. This condemns every act of transgression.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 14. answer] As in Deu_21:7, solemnly pronounce.
14. answer] As in Deu_21:7, solemnly pronounce.
with a loud voice] Lit. a high voice, not elsewhere in the O.T. Cp. Deu_5:19, a great voice.
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14–26. Appointment of the Levites to Curse
According to 11–13 both a blessing and a curse were to be pronounced, here we have only curses, twelve in number. There Levi was one of six tribes appointed to bless; here the Levites, in religious distinction from all the other tribes, are to pronounce the curses. Further, the 12 curses are not confined to sins dealt with in the Code of D; the objects of only 7 are forbidden in D, of 6 in E, Exo_20:2-23, of 1 in J, Exodus 34, and of as many as Deu_27:9 in H, Leviticus 17-26. The inferences are reasonable that this passage is not from the same hand as the preceding (i.e. not from E) and not from D.
The inclusion of so many sins forbidden only in H does not necessarily imply that the list of curses is exilic (Berth.). It may be from a source independent of all those documents, some national or local liturgy; and Meyer—Luther (Die Israeliten, 552) suggest that it was in use at the sanctuary of Shechem. Nor is the hand which introduced it here that of D, but of a late editor, for note the simple term Levites instead of D’s the priests the Levites and the phrase unto all the men of Israel, found elsewhere only in Jos_10:24 in a passage with many editorial elements. D’s phrase is all Israel (see, above Deu_27:9).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The Levites standing probably in some convenient spot midway…
The Levites standing probably in some convenient spot midway between the two mountains (cf. Jos_8:33) were to pronounce with a loud voice the blessing and the curse, so that all might hear; and the people were to give their assent, and take to themselves, as it were, the blessing or the curse as uttered, by a solemn Amen. By the Levites here are intended, not the sons of Levi generally, but that portion of them which belonged to the priesthood, and bare the ark of the covenant. (Jos_8:33)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 27:14 The Levites as a group were stationed on…
27:14 The Levites as a group were stationed on Mount Gerizim (27:12). The Ark of the Covenant accompanied them, and they offered sacrifices (Josh 8:30-35). It was part of the Levites’ role to teach and proclaim the Torah (Deut 33:10; see study note on 6:8; see also Lev 10:11).
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