Deuteronomy 27:26 BSB

Deuteronomy 27:26

‘Cursed is he who does not put the words of this law into practice.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

BSB

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ASV

Cursed be he that confirmeth not the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.

KJV

Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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Commentary

4 voices

Basil of Caesarea

CONCERNING BAPTISM 5 (379)

Moses was the writer of a great part of the law. Did he not add to it a threat against the transgressor or the negligent? He presents a general malediction upon all violators. This is seen in his introduction to the announcement of this most frightful penalty: "Cursed be every man that abides not in all that is written in the book of this law"; and elsewhere, "Cursed be he that does the work of the Lord negligently."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Confirmeth not - Or, performeth not. To this we must all say, Amen! Owning ourselves to be under the curse, and that we must have perished forever, if Christ had not redeemed us from the curse of the law, by being made a curse for us.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

By our obedience to the law we set our seal to it, and so confirm it, as by our disobedience we do what lies in us to disannul it, Ps. cxix. The apostle, following all the ancient versions, reads it, Cursed is every one that continues not, Gal. iii.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

That confirmeth not all the words of this law - The word כל col, All, is not found in any printed copy of the Hebrew text; but the Samaritan preserves it, and so do six MSS. in the collections of Kennicott and De Rossi, besides several copies of the Chaldee Targum. The Septuagint also, and St. Paul in his quotation of this place, Gal 3:10. St. Jerome says that the Jews suppressed the word, that it might not appear that they were bound to fulfill All the precepts in the law of Moses.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אָר֗וּר	'a.Rur	[is] cursed	H779 →
אֲשֶׁ֧ר	'a.Sher	[the one] who	H834 →
לֹא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
יָקִ֛ים	ya.Kim	he will carry out	H6965 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
דִּבְרֵ֥י	div.Rei	[the] words of	H1697 →
הַתּוֹרָֽה־	ha.to.rah-	the law	H8451 →
הַזֹּ֖את	ha.Zot	<the> this	H2063 →
לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת	la.'a.Sot	by observing	H6213 →
אוֹתָ֑ם	'o.Tam	<obj.> them	H853 →
וְאָמַ֥ר	ve.'a.Mar	and it will say	H559 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
הָעָ֖ם	ha.'Am	the people	H5971 →
אָמֵֽן׃ פ	'a.Men	amen	H543 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Galatians 3:10
All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
leads to
- Romans 8:7
  because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
- Romans 3:19–20
  Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
- Deuteronomy 11:26–28
  See, today I am setting before you a blessing and a curse—
- Jeremiah 11:3
  You must tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Cursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,
- James 2:9–11
  But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
Through
Romans 10:5
For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”
leads to
- Leviticus 18:5
  Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.
Through
Ezekiel 18:24
But if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, committing the same abominations as the wicked, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered. Because of…
leads to
- Ezekiel 33:18
  If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.
- Proverbs 21:16
  The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

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About Deuteronomy