You shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have passed over, that you may go in to the land which the LORD your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 3. That, and so forth Hebrew and Septuagint “And thou shalt write upon them (stones) all the words of,” and so forth Bible.—This law, the decalogue, (Masius in Jos. viii. 32,) or all the laws of Moses, leaving out the historical parts of his work, or the 20th and three following chapters of Exodus, or the discourses of Moses in this book, and so forth Josue, in effect, wrote upon stones the Deuteronomy of the law of Moses, which Josephus explains of the curses and blessings inscribed upon the two sides of the monument, as an abridgment of the whole law. Calmet.—The Jordan is not in Hebrew expressly, but in the Septuagint After the Israelites had crossed this river, they were thus to make a solemn profession of their adherence to the law of God, ( Bible.) as they did (verse 12,) after they had taken Hai; though Josephus insinuates, that they deferred for five years the accomplishment of what is here required. Bible.