Deuteronomy 27:4

"You shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have passed over, that you may go in to the land which the LORD your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you."

Key Reflection

This verse emphasizes the importance of remembering and obeying the Law of Moses as a condition for entering and possessing the Promised Land. It symbolizes the requirement to adhere to God's commandments in order to experience His blessings and fulfillment of promises.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

In mount Ebal -Compare the marginal references. The Samaritan Pentateuch and Version read here Gerizim instead of Ebal; but the original text was probably, as nearly all modern authorities hold, altered in order to lend a show of scriptural sanction to the Samaritan temple on Mount Gerizim. The erection of the altar, the offering thereon burnt-offerings and peace-offeringsDeuteronomy 27:6-7, the publication of the Law in writing, form altogether a solemn renewal of the covenant on the entrance of the people into the promised land, and recall the ceremonies observed on the original grant of the covenant at Sinai (compareExodus 24:5).

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