Deuteronomy 27:1
INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 27
In this chapter the people of Israel are ordered to write the law on plastered stones, and set them on Mount Ebal, De 27:1; where they are bid to erect an altar, and offer sacrifices on it, De 27:5; and are charged by Moses and the priests to obey the Lord, and keep his commandments, De 27:9; and a direction is given to each tribes which should stand and bless, and which curse, and where, De 27:11; and the curses which the Levites should pronounce with a loud voice, and the people should say Amen to, are recited, De 27:14; and the whole is concluded with a curse on all who in general do not perform the whole law, De 27:26.
Ver. 1. And Moses, with the elders of Israel, commanded the people, saying,.... The seventy elders, at the head of whom was Moses, which made the great sanhedrim, or council of the nation; Moses having recited all the laws of God to the people, these joined with him in an exhortation to them to observe and obey them:
keep all the commandments which I command you this day; not in his own name, as being the supreme legislator, but in the name of the Lord, whom they had avouched to be their God and King, from whom he had received them.