Deuteronomy 27:4
Ver. 4. And therefore it shall be, when ye be gone over Jordan,.... Some time after they had passed that river:
[that] ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in Mount Ebal; a mountain near Shechem in Samaria, and was, as Benjamin of Tudela says {r}, dry as stones and rocks itself, and perhaps had its name, as some think {s}, from the root in the Arabic language which signifies to strip a tree of its leaves, and a derivative from it, white stones and a mountain in which such are found. Hither the stones commanded to be set up were to be brought, and fixed here; from whence it is not certain; it may be from some part of the mountain. Here the Samaritan version has Gerizim instead of Ebal, which is generally thought to be a wilful corruption of the Samaritans, in favour of their temple built at Gerizim:
and thou shall plaster them with plaster; as before directed, De 27:2.
{r} Itinerar. p. 40. {s} Reland. Dissert. 3. de Monte Gerizim, p. 128. See Castel. Lexic. Heptaglott col 2642.