Deuteronomy 27:23

Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law,.... See Lev 18:7. All these incestuous or brutal copulations may well be supposed to be done in secret:

and all the people shall say Amen; as…

Compare Jos 8:32-35. The solemnity was apparently designed only for the single occasion on which it actually took place. Deu 27:12, Deu 27:13 The tribes appointed to stand on Gerizim to bless the…

When the law was written, to be seen and read by all men, the sanctions of it were to be published, which, to complete the solemnity of their covenanting with God, they were deliberately to declare…