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And afterwardוְאַחֲרֵי כֵןhe readקָרָאallאֶת כָּלthe wordsדִּבְרֵיof the instruction,הַתּוֹרָהthe blessingהַבְּרָכָהand the curse,וְהַקְּלָלָהaccording to allכְּכָלthat is writtenהַכָּתוּבin the bookבְּסֵפֶרof the instruction.הַתּוֹרָה
Joshua 8:34
Study it in the app“And afterward he read all the words of the instruction, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the instruction.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Joshua 8:34, word by word
- he readקָרָאkara
read aloud
To say a written text aloud.
Where else “kara” appears- the wordsדִּבְרֵיdivre
word
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “divre” appears- of the instructionתּוֹרָהtora
teaching of YHWH
What YHWH teaches his people so they may live.
Where else “tora” appears- the blessingבְּרָכָהberacha
blessing
The good God gives, or words asking for it.
Where else “beracha” appears- and the curseקְּלָלָהkelala
curse
Curse: words calling down evil on someone; the opposite of a blessing.
Where else “kelala” appears- that is writtenכָּתוּבkatuv
write
To put words in writing, in a book or tablet, so that they last.
Where else “katuv” appears- in the bookסֵפֶרsefer
book
A scroll of skin or papyrus on which law, history or a record is written.
Where else “sefer” appears
The context
33And all Israel, with its elders and supervisors and its judges, were standing on this side and on that side of the ark, in front of the priests, the Levites, who carried the ark of the covenant of YHWH, the resident alien as well as the native, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of YHWH had commanded, to bless the people of Israel at the first.
34 · This verse (above)
35There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women and the little ones and the resident alien who walked among them.