10 So you must obey his laws and teachings that I am giving you.”
11 That same day, Moses gave them the following instructions:
12-13 After you cross the River Jordan, you will go to Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal. The tribes of Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin will go up on Mount Gerizim, where they will bless the people of Israel. The tribes of Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali will go up on Mount Ebal where they will agree to the curses.
14-26 The people of the Levi tribe will speak each curse in a loud voice, then the rest of the people will agree to that curse by saying, “Amen!” Here are the curses:We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who makes an idol or worships idols, even secretly. The Lord is disgusted with idols.We ask the Lord to put a curse on all who do not show respect for their father and mother.We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who moves the rocks that mark boundaries.We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who tells blind people to go the wrong way.We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who keeps the poor from getting justice, whether these poor are foreigners, widows, or orphans.We ask the Lord to put a curse on any man who sleeps with his father's wife; that man has shown no respect for his father's marriage.We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who has sex with an animal.We ask the Lord to put a curse on any man who sleeps with his sister or his half-sister or his mother-in-law.We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who commits murder, even when there are no witnesses to the crime.We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who accepts money to murder an innocent victim.We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who refuses to obey his laws.And so, to each of these curses, the people will answer, “Amen!”