¹² “These shall stand ^(A)on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have crossed over the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin;

¹³ and ^(A)these shall stand on Mount Ebal to curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

³³ Then all Israel, with their elders and officers and judges, stood on either side of the ark before the priests, the Levites, ^(A)who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, ^(B)the stranger as well as he who was born among them. Half of them were in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, ^(C)as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.