Thus, when God, your God, will bring you into the land that you are entering in order to possess, you must position those pronouncing the blessing facing Mount Gerizim and those pronouncing the curse facing Mount Eival. For you are crossing the Jordan River in order to enter and take possession of the land that God, your God, is giving you; you will indeed take possession of the land and settle it. The following are the rules and ordinances that you must safeguard by studying how to perform them in the land that God, God of your forefathers, is giving you to possess all the days that you live on the earth.