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Key: khaki:verbs, blue:Elohim, green:YHWH.
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BrLXXκαὶ εἰσακούσῃ τῆς φωνῆς Κυρίου τοῦ Θεοῦ σου, καὶ ποιήσεις πάσας τὰς ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὰ δικαιώματα αὐτοῦ, ὅσα ἐγὼ ἐντέλλομαί σοι σήμερον. (kai eisakousaʸ taʸs fōnaʸs Kuriou tou Theou sou, kai poiaʸseis pasas tas entolas autou, kai ta dikaiōmata autou, hosa egō entellomai soi saʸmeron. )
BrTrAnd thou shalt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and shalt do all his commands, and his ordinances, as many as I command thee this day.
ULTAnd hear the voice of Yahweh your God and do his commandments and statutes that I am commanding you today.”
USTSo you must do what he tells you, and obey all the rules and regulations that I am giving to you today.”
BSBYou shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God and follow His commandments and statutes I am giving you today.”
RVThou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.
WbstrThou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day.
KJB-1769Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day. (Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy/your God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee/you this day. )
KJB-1611Thou shalt therefore obey the voyce of the LORD thy God, and doe his Commandements, and his Statutes which I command thee this day. (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and punctuation)
BshpsThou shalt hearken therfore vnto the voyce of the Lorde thy God, and do his commaundementes, and his ordinaunces which I commaunde thee this day. (Thou shalt hearken therefore unto the voice of the Lord thy/your God, and do his commandments, and his ordinaunces which I command thee/you this day.)
GnvaThou shalt hearken therefore vnto the voyce of the Lord thy God, and do his commandements and his ordinances, which I commande thee this day. (Thou shalt hearken therefore unto the voice of the Lord thy/your God, and do his commandments and his ordinances, which I commande thee/you this day. )
Cvdlthat thou mayest be obedient vnto the voyce of the LORDE thy God, and do acordinge vnto all his commaundementes and ordinaunces, which I comaunde the this daye. (that thou/you mayest/may be obedient unto the voice of the LORD thy/your God, and do according unto all his commandments and ordinaunces, which I command the this day.)
Wyclthou schalt here his vois, and thou schalt do `the comaundementis, and riytfulnessis, whiche Y comaunde to thee to dai. (thou shalt here his voice, and thou/you shalt do `the commandmentis, and riytfulnessis, which I command to thee/you to day.)
Luthdaß du der Stimme des HErr’s, deines Gottes, gehorsam seiest und tust nach seinen Geboten und Rechten, die ich dir heute gebiete. (daß you the/of_the voice the LORD’s, yours God’s, obedient/submissive be and tust after his Geboten and lawen, the I you/to_you heute gebiete.)
ClVgaudies vocem ejus, et facies mandata atque justitias, quas ego præcipio tibi. (audies vocem his, and faces mandata atque justitias, which I præcipio tibi. )
(Some words not found in UHB: and,obey in/on/at/with,voice YHWH God,your and,follow DOM commandments,his and=DOM statutes,his which/who I commanding,you the=day )
Here the metonym “voice of Yahweh” refers to what he says. Alternate translation: “obey what Yahweh your God says”
(Occurrence 0) I am commanding
(Some words not found in UHB: and,obey in/on/at/with,voice YHWH God,your and,follow DOM commandments,his and=DOM statutes,his which/who I commanding,you the=day )
Moses is commanding. The Levites are there in agreement with Moses, but he is the only one speaking.
A quick search on the internet reveals that some of the top ways to commit something to long term memory include: 1) organizing the information; 2) making associations; 3) using visual cues (graphs, etc.); 4) creating mnemonic devices (rhymes, acrostics, etc.); 5) writing it down; 6) saying it out loud; 7) quizzing yourself; 8) and rehearsing it (https://www.usa.edu/blog/science-backed-memory-tips/). There should be no doubt, then, that the covenant renewal ceremony at Shechem would have been a truly memorable event for all involved. Two times in the book of Deuteronomy the Israelites are instructed to renew the covenant at Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal after they have entered the Promised Land of Canaan, and then the actual event is recorded in the book of Joshua. Located in the heartland of Israel, Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal sat on either side of the ancient city of Shechem, where the Lord had promised centuries earlier to give Canaan to Abraham and his descendants (Genesis 12:6-7). The renewal ceremony was essentially the corporate, verbal affirmation of the terms of the covenant that the Lord had established with Israel at Mount Sinai. As with virtually all ancient Near Eastern covenants, the terms included blessings for those who remained faithful to it and curses for those who broke it. Joshua and the priests stood between the two mountains with the Ark of the Covenant and read the entire book of the law. Six of the tribes (Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin) stood in front of the Ark on Mount Gerizim and shouted the blessings for faithfulness to the covenant, and six of the tribes (Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali) stood in front of the Ark on Mount Ebal and shouted the curses for unfaithfulness. It is very possible that this ceremony was performed within a natural amphitheater that exists even today on both Gerizim and Ebal at the place shown on this map. By standing within the concave spaces of the two mountains, the tribes would have been both “on” the mountains (Deuteronomy 27:11-13) and “on opposite sides of” the Ark (Joshua 8:33), and they would have been entirely capable of hearing Joshua’s words as well as each other’s shouts of blessings and curses. As far as why Gerizim was assigned the place of blessing and Ebal the place of curses, it is not entirely clear, but it may be because the ancients typically regarded east as being in front of them, so Gerizim would have been located on their right, which was typically favored over the left. Also, commentators have often expressed confusion over the mention of “the arabah” and “Gilgal” in Deuteronomy 11, typically because it is assumed that they refer to the Jordan Valley and the Gilgal near Jericho, respectively. This author, however, is convinced that “the arabah” (often meaning, “plain”) refers to the small plain immediately east of Shechem. And “Gilgal” (meaning, “wheel/circle”) in this verse refers to a location just across the plain at Khirbet Gulegil. (The name “Gilgal” was likely applied to at least four locations throughout Canaan; see Joshua 4:19; 15:7; Judges 3:19; 2 Kings 2:1; 4:38; Deuteronomy 11:30.) Centuries later, a Samaritan temple was built atop Mount Gerizim after foreign peoples were resettled in Israel, and this is what the Samaritan woman was referring to when she said to Jesus, “Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem” (John 4:20). But Jesus replied to her, “Believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem….But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth” (John 4:21-23; see also “Shechem and the Hill Country of Samaria” map).
