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.
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.
And 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.
And after, he gave them all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, as it is all recorded in the book of the law;
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.
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.
And 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.
All the words of the law - See Deuteronomy 31:11 ff It would seem that Joshua, on the present occasion, must have read at least all the legislative portion of the Pentateuch before the people (compare on Deuteronomy 27:3). The terms of this verse cannot be satisfactorily explained as importing only the blessings and curses of Deuteronomy 27-28.
8:34 Afterward - After the altar was built, and the stones plaistered and writ upon. He read - That is, he commanded the priests or Levites to read, Deut 27:14. Blessings and cursings - Which words came in not by way of explication, as if the words of the law were nothing else besides the blessings and curses; but by way of addition, to note that these were read over and above the words of the law.