¹² “When you cross the Jordan, these shall stand on ^(A)Mount Gerizim to bless the people: ^(B)Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

^33 (A)All Israel with their elders and officers and their judges were standing on both sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, the stranger as well as the native. Half of them stood in front of ^(B)Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the Lord had given command at first to bless the people of Israel.