(R. Elazar b'Ribi Shimon): I told the Kusi scribes 'you adulterated your Torah, and you did not help yourselves at all! You wrote in your Torah 'Etzel Eilonei Moreh Shechem.' Is it not known that it is Shechem?! Rather, [you needed to alter the text] because you do not expound Gezeirah Shavah, and we expound a Gezeirah Shavah;

It says here "Eilonei Moreh", and it says there [about Avraham] Eilonei Moreh. Just like Eilonei Moreh said there is Shechem, also Eilonei Moreh said here is Shechem.

This is like R. Yishmael, for R. Yishmael says, wherever it says 'Bi'ah' (entering Eretz Yisrael) in the Torah, it is after 14 years - seven of conquest and seven that they divided [the land among the Shevatim];

And similarly, the Brachos and curses were said 14 years after [entering the land, for it says "Ki Yevi'acha... v'Nasata Es ha'Berachah..."].

Question (R. Chananyah, to R. Mana): It says "v'Hayah b'Avrechem Es ha'Yarden Takimu Es ha'Avanim ha'Eleh"!

Note: Devarim 27:2 says to erect stones on the day they cross the Yarden. We cite verse 4, which says to erect these stones in Har Eival b'Avrechem (when they cross) the Yarden and plaster them, and verse 12 says to give the Berachos and curses on Har Gerizim and Har Eival b'Avrechem Es ha'Yarden. It seems that the Makshan assumed that verses 2 and 4 discuss the same erection. SHIREI KORBAN asks, if so, he should have asked from verse 2, which says "on the day you cross the Yarden!"

Answer (R. Mana): They erected the rocks immediately. The Brachos and curses were said 14 years later.