Deut 27:15

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Cursed be.

Deut 28:16-19; Gen 9:25; 1Sam 26:19; Jer 11:3

maketh.

Deut 4:16-23; Deut 5:8; Exod 20:4; Exod 20:23; Exod 32:1-4; Exod 34:17; Lev 19:4; Lev 26:1

Isa 44:9; Isa 44:10; Isa 44:17; Hos 13:2; Hos 13:3

an abomination.

Deut 29:17; 1Kgs 11:5-7; 2Kgs 23:13; 2Chr 33:2; Isa 44:19; Ezek 7:20

Dan 11:31; Matt 24:15; Rev 17:4; Rev 17:5

and putteth.

Gen 31:19; Gen 31:34; 2Kgs 17:19; Ps 44:20; Ps 44:21; Jer 23:24; Ezek 8:7-12; Ezek 14:4

And all.

Num 5:22; Jer 11:5; Jer 28:6; Matt 6:13; 1Cor 14:16

Amen.

To each of the curses the people were to say Amen, as well as to the blessings; to denote a profession of their faith in the truth of them, that they were the real declarations of the wrath of God; and an acknowledgement of the equity of these curses.

It was such an imprecation upon themselves, as strongly obliged them to have nothing to do with those evil practices on which the curse is entailed. We read of those who entered a curse to walk in God's law. Ne 10:29.

All the people, by saying this Amen, became bound one for another, that they would observe God's laws, by which every man was obliged, as far as he could, to prevent his neighbour from breaking these laws, and to reprove those that had offended, lest they should bear sin and the curse for them.