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All Israel, i.e. the whole congregation, old and young, male and female, as it follows, Jos_8:35.
On this side the ark, and on that side, i.e. some on one side of it, and some on the other. Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal were in the tribe of Ephraim, not far from Shechem, as appears both from Scripture, Deu_11:29,30 27:12 Jud_9:7, and from other authors who lived in those parts, as Josephus and the Jewish doctors. That they should bless, or curse, which is easily understood out of the following verse, and from Deu_27:13, &c.