Deuteronomychapter 27
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Original Language
Deuteronomy 27— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Deuteronomy 27. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.
The reading
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כִּי־תָבוֹא Ki Tavo, Deuteronomy 26:1 to 29:8
Read with it: Isaiah 60:1 to 60:22.
The verse numbers here are the ones a Hebrew Bible carries, which differ from an English Bible by a verse or two in several places. The Sephardi reading is named only where this site records a difference; communities vary beyond what is listed. What these books are, and how a Christian reader meets them →
Where the rabbis cite this chapter
3 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 3 verses of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
Great stones, plaster, and an unhewn altar1
Deuteronomy 27:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Ramban on Deuteronomy 27:1
KEEP ALL THE COMMANDMENT etc. The meaning thereof is that after Moses completed his words [to the people,] he ordered the elders also to join him and warn the people to keep all the commandments, for every nation follows the advice of its elders.
Read it in full at Sefaria · Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976
Deuteronomy 27:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 27:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 27:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 27:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 27:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 27:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 27:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
This day you have become a people9
Deuteronomy 27:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 27:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Six tribes to bless, six to curse11
Deuteronomy 27:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 27:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 27:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 27:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Twelve curses, and all the people say Amen15
Deuteronomy 27:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Sforno on Deuteronomy 27:15
ארור האיש, all of the “cursed be” mentioned here had first been intoned as a blessing for all the people refraining from becoming guilty of the sins that are mentioned here.
Read it in full at Sefaria · Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash
Deuteronomy 27:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Deuteronomy 27:16
מקלה means, “making light of”, it has the same meaning as (Deuteronomy:3) “Lest … thy brother become despicable (נקלה).
Read it in full at Sefaria · Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934
Deuteronomy 27:17· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 27:18· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 27:19· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 27:20· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 27:21· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 27:22· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 27:23· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 27:24· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 27:25· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Deuteronomy 27:26· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible