The stones here named are not those of which the altar (Deuteronomy 27:5) was to be built, but are to serve as a separate monument witn…

Moses with the elders. —Here they are joined in exhortation for the first time in this book.

Keep. —Literal…

And it shall be, on the day when you shall pass over Jordan ,
&c.] Not the precise day exactly, but about that time,…

As soon as they had come into Canaan, they were to set up a monument, on which they were to write the words of this law. They were to set up an alt…