Joshua 8:33 meaning and explanation
All Israel, foreigners and citizens alike, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark of the covenant of the LORD facing the Levitical priests who carried it. Half of the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded earlier, to bless the people of Israel.
Joshua 8:33, Berean Standard Bible
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After the destruction of Ai, Joshua gathers the whole nation in the valley between Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal, as Moses had commanded in Deuteronomy 27. The ark stands at the center, carried by the Levitical priests, and the people face it from both slopes.
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