Deuteronomy 27:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

On the day that you cross over the Jordan into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall set up large stones and cover them with plaster.

Cross References

Job 19:24

O that with an iron pen and with lead they were engraved on a rock forever!

Ezekiel 11:19

I will give them one heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,

Ezekiel 36:26

A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you, and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

Deuteronomy 11:31

“When you cross the Jordan to go in to occupy the land that the Lord your God is giving you and when you occupy it and live in it,

Deuteronomy 26:1

“When you have come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess and you possess it and settle in it,

Deuteronomy 27:1

Then Moses and the elders of Israel charged all the people as follows: “Keep the entire commandment that I am commanding you today.

Deuteronomy 27:3

You shall write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over, to enter the land that the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you.

Deuteronomy 27:4

So when you have crossed over the Jordan, you shall set up these stones about which I am commanding you today on Mount Ebal, and you shall cover them with plaster.

Deuteronomy 6:1

“Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that the Lord your God charged me to teach you to observe in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy,

Deuteronomy 9:1

“Hear, O Israel! You are about to cross the Jordan today, to go in and dispossess nations larger and mightier than you, great cities, fortified to the heavens,

Joshua 1:11

“Pass through the camp and command the people, ‘Prepare your provisions, for in three days you are to cross over this Jordan, to go in to take possession of the land that the Lord your God gives you to possess.’ ”

Joshua 4:1

When the entire nation had finished crossing over the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua,

Joshua 8:30

Then Joshua built on Mount Ebal an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel,

Joshua 8:31

just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the Israelites, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, “an altar of unhewn stones, on which no iron tool has been used,” and they offered on it burnt offerings to the Lord and sacrificed offerings of well-being.

Joshua 8:32

And there, in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses that he had written.