Deuteronomy 27:12

These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:

These shall stand {H5975} upon mount {H2022} Gerizim {H1630} to bless {H1288} the people {H5971}, when ye are come over {H5674} Jordan {H3383}; Simeon {H8095}, and Levi {H3878}, and Judah {H3063}, and Issachar {H3485}, and Joseph {H3130}, and Benjamin {H1144}:

"These are the ones who are to stand on Mount G'rizim and bless the people after you have crossed the Yarden: Shim'on, Levi, Y'hudah, Yissakhar, Yosef and Binyamin;

“When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.

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Cross-References

  • Judges 9:7 (3 votes)

    ¶ And when they told [it] to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.

  • Joshua 8:33 (2 votes)

    And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.

  • Joshua 8:35 (2 votes)

    There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.

  • Deuteronomy 11:26 (2 votes)

    ¶ Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;

  • Deuteronomy 11:29 (2 votes)

    And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.

  • Genesis 30:18 (2 votes)

    And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

  • Genesis 30:24 (2 votes)

    And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.