Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:

and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of Jehovah your God, but turn aside from the way which I am commanding you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.

And all Israel, with their elders and officers and judges, stood on either side of the ark before the priests, the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, the sojourner 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, as Moses the servant of Jehovah had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.

And afterward he read all the Words of the Law, the blessings and the curses, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law.

Now when they told Jotham, he went and stood on top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted his voice and cried out. And he said to them: Listen to me, you lords of Shechem, that God may listen to you!

And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, Because Jehovah has heard that I am hated, He has therefore given me this one also. And she called his name Simeon.

And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, Now I will praise Jehovah. Therefore she called his name Judah. Then she stopped giving birth.

And Leah said, God has given me my wages, because I have given my maid to my husband. So she called his name Issachar.

So she called his name Joseph, and said, Jehovah shall add to me another son.

And so it was, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-Oni; but his father called him Benjamin.