Mount Ebal

mountain, West Bank

Also known as: Har ʿEval, Jabal ʿAybāl

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Mount Ebal is a mountain in the West Bank, north of the city of Nablus. It is a twin to Mount Gerizim, with a valley separating them. In the Hebrew Bible, Mount Ebal is mentioned as the site where God was to pronounce blessings on the Jewish people. The mountain is also referenced in the Talmud and by the historian Flavius Josephus.1

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Mount Gerizim
…it is a twin of Mount Ebal (Arabic Jabal ʿAybāl, Hebrew Har ʿEval; 3,084 feet [940 metres]) to the north. Separating the two is a valley some 700 feet (210 metres) deep, through which passes one of the few east-west routes of the central Palestine hill country. The mountain was…
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…it is a twin of Mount Ebal (Arabic Jabal ʿAybāl, Hebrew Har ʿEval; 3,084 feet [940 metres]) to the north. Separating the two is a valley some 700 feet (210 metres) deep, through which passes one of the few east-west routes of the central Palestine hill country. The mountain was…
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