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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Gerizim
Opposite Mount Ebal, near Shechem. Six tribes stood on Gerizim to speak the blessings while six on Ebal spoke the curses, as Moses had ordered and Joshua carried out. The Samaritans later built a temple on top as a rival to Jerusalem, which is what the Samaritan woman is asking Jesus about in John 4:20.
Opposite Mount Ebal, near Shechem. Six tribes stood on Gerizim to speak the blessings while six on Ebal spoke the curses, as Moses had ordered and Joshua carried out. The Samaritans later built a temple on top as a rival to Jerusalem, which is what the Samaritan woman is asking Jesus about in John 4:20.
Mount Gerizim rises opposite Mount Ebal near Shechem in Samaria, and Moses commanded that after entering Canaan, six tribes should stand on its slopes to pronounce blessings for obedience while six tribes on Ebal pronounced curses, a ceremony Joshua carried out at the site (Deuteronomy 27:12; Joshua 8:33). Centuries later the Samaritans built their own temple on Gerizim as a rival to Jerusalem's, the practice behind the Samaritan woman's question to Jesus about the proper mountain of worship in John 4:20. Archaeological excavations on the summit have uncovered the remains of that Samaritan sacred precinct, including a large temple platform dated to the Persian or early Hellenistic period, confirming the site's long use as a rival cultic center to Jerusalem.
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- Deuteronomy 11:29
- Deuteronomy 27:12
- Joshua 8:33
- Judges 9:7
