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28 and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but rather you turn from the way that I am commanding you today[a] to go after other gods that you have not known.

29 “And it will happen that when Yahweh your God has brought you to the land that you are going to,[b] to take possession of it, then[c] you shall pronounce the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. 30 (Are they not beyond the Jordan, toward the west,[d] in the land of the Canaanites living in the Jordan Valley,[e] opposite Gilgal beside the terebinth[f] of Moreh?)

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 11:28 Literally “the day”
  2. Deuteronomy 11:29 Literally “the land that you are going there”
  3. Deuteronomy 11:29 Hebrew “and”
  4. Deuteronomy 11:30 Literally “after the way of the descent of the sun”
  5. Deuteronomy 11:30 Hebrew “in the Arabah”
  6. Deuteronomy 11:30 Or “oaks”

28 the curse if you disobey(A) the commands of the Lord your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods,(B) which you have not known. 29 When the Lord your God has brought you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim on Mount Gerizim(C) the blessings, and on Mount Ebal(D) the curses.(E) 30 As you know, these mountains are across the Jordan, westward, toward the setting sun, near the great trees of Moreh,(F) in the territory of those Canaanites living in the Arabah in the vicinity of Gilgal.(G)

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