Deuteronomy 27:26
Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Studiennotiz
Study Note
The closing curse of the Shechem covenant ceremony — 'cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them; and all the people shall say, Amen' — establishes total Torah compliance as the condition of covenant standing, with the community's liturgical response (Amen) constituting self-implication. The curse applies not to deliberate transgression but to failure to 'confirm' (qum, 'establish, uphold') all the words — a sweeping standard that the prophets and wisdom literature routinely invoke to demonstrate universal human shortfall. Paul quotes this verse in Galatians 3:10 to argue that all who are 'of the works of the law are under a curse' — because no one fulfills the whole law — setting up the contrast with Christ who becomes a curse for us (v. 13, citing Deuteronomy 21:23). The verse is thus the exegetical starting point of Paul's most concentrated argument against justification by legal works.
Andere Übersetzungen
Cursed be he that confirmeth not the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.
`Cursed <FI>is<Fi> he who doth not establish the words of this law, to do them, --and all the people have said, Amen.
Cursed is he who does not take this law to heart to do it. And let all the people say, So be it.
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