John Gill's Exposition on Deuteronomy 27:14

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel, etc.] Rather, “answer f494 and say”; not the whole tribe of Levi, for that stood on Mount Gerizim to bless, (<052712>Deuteronomy 27:12); but the priests of that tribe who were placed in the valley, between the two mountains, and pronounced both the blessings and the curses in the hearing of all the tribes of Israel, to which they were to answer Amen; and that they might plainly hear, they expressed their words with a loud voice, clearly and distinctly, as follow.

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