Deuteronomy, starting at chapter 28
{28:1} It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice
of the LORD your God, to observe to do all his commandments which I
command you this day, that the LORD your God will set you on high
above all the nations of the earth: {28:2} and all these blessings
shall come on you, and overtake you, if you shall listen to the voice
of the LORD your God. {28:3} You shall be blessed in the city, and you
shall be blessed in the field. {28:4} You shall be blessed in the
fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your
animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.
{28:5} Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed. {28:6}
You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when
you go out. {28:7} The LORD will cause your enemies who rise up
against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you
one way, and will flee before you seven ways. {28:8} The LORD will
command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put
your hand to; and he will bless you in the land which the LORD your
God gives you. {28:9} The LORD will establish you for a holy people to
himself, as he has sworn to you; if you shall keep the commandments of
the LORD your God, and walk in his ways. {28:10} All the peoples of
the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD; and
they shall be afraid of you. {28:11} The LORD will make you plenteous
for good, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your
livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which the LORD
swore to your fathers to give you. {28:12} The LORD will open to you
his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its
season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend to
many nations, and you shall not borrow. {28:13} The LORD will make you
the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall
not be beneath; if you shall listen to the commandments of the LORD
your God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do, {28:14}
and shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you
this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to
serve them. {28:15} But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen
to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all his
commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all
these curses shall come on you, and overtake you. {28:16} You shall be
cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in the field. {28:17} Your
basket and your kneading trough shall be cursed. {28:18} The fruit of
your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock,
and the young of your flock shall be cursed. {28:19} You shall be
cursed when you come in, and you shall be cursed when you go out.
{28:20} The LORD will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in
all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until
you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you
have forsaken me. {28:21} The LORD will make the pestilence cling to
you, until he has consumed you from off the land, where you go in to
possess it. {28:22} The LORD will strike you with consumption, and
with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the
sword, and with blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you
until you perish. {28:23} Your sky that is over your head shall be
brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron. {28:24} The LORD
will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it
come down on you, until you are destroyed. {28:25} The LORD will cause
you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against
them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed
back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth. {28:26} Your dead
body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the
earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away. {28:27} The LORD
will strike you with the boil of Egypt, and with the tumors, and with
the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed. {28:28}
The LORD will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with
astonishment of heart; {28:29} and you shall grope at noonday, as the
blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and
you shall be only oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none
to save you. {28:30} You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall
lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell
therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use its fruit.
{28:31} Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat
of it: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your
face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to
your enemies, and you shall have none to save you. {28:32} Your sons
and your daughters shall be given to another people; and your eyes
shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there
shall be nothing in the power of your hand. {28:33} The fruit of your
ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you don't know eat
up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always; {28:34} so
that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
{28:35} The LORD will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a
sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot
to the crown of your head. {28:36} The LORD will bring you, and your
king whom you shall set over you, to a nation that you have not known,
you nor your fathers; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and
stone. {28:37} You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a
byword, among all the peoples where the LORD shall lead you away.
{28:38} You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather
little in; for the locust shall consume it. {28:39} You shall plant
vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine, nor
harvest; for the worm shall eat them. {28:40} You shall have olive
trees throughout all your borders, but you shall not anoint yourself
with the oil; for your olives shall drop off. {28:41} You shall father
sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go
into captivity. {28:42} All your trees and the fruit of your ground
shall the locust possess. {28:43} The foreigner who is in the midst of
you shall mount up above you higher and higher; and you shall come
down lower and lower. {28:44} He shall lend to you, and you shall not
lend to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. {28:45}
All these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, and overtake
you, until you are destroyed; because you didn't listen to the voice
of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which
he commanded you: {28:46} and they shall be on you for a sign and for
a wonder, and on your seed forever. {28:47} Because you didn't serve
the LORD your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by
reason of the abundance of all things; {28:48} therefore you shall
serve your enemies whom the LORD shall send against you, in hunger,
and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he
shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he has destroyed you.
{28:49} The LORD will bring a nation against you from far, from the
end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you
shall not understand; {28:50} a nation of fierce facial expressions,
that shall not respect the person of the old, nor show favor to the
young, {28:51} and shall eat the fruit of your livestock, and the
fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not
leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or
the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish. {28:52}
They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and
fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your
land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your
land, which the LORD your God has given you. {28:53} You shall eat the
fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters,
whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress
with which your enemies shall distress you. {28:54} The man who is
tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his
brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of
his children whom he has remaining; {28:55} so that he will not give
to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because
he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which
your enemy shall distress you in all your gates. {28:56} The tender
and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole
of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye
shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and
toward her daughter, {28:57} and toward her young one who comes out
from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear;
for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege
and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your
gates. {28:58} If you will not observe to do all the words of this law
that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and
fearful name, THE LORD YOUR GOD; {28:59} then the LORD will make your
plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues,
and of long continuance, and severe sicknesses, and of long
continuance. {28:60} He will bring on you again all the diseases of
Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they shall cling to you. {28:61}
Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the
book of this law, the LORD will bring them on you, until you are
destroyed. {28:62} You shall be left few in number, whereas you were
as the stars of the sky for multitude; because you didn't listen to
the voice of the LORD your God. {28:63} It shall happen that as the
LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so the
LORD will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you;
and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go in to possess
it. {28:64} The LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from the one
end of the earth even to the other end of the earth; and there you
shall serve other gods, which you have not known, you nor your
fathers, even wood and stone. {28:65} Among these nations you shall
find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot:
but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart, and failing of
eyes, and pining of soul; {28:66} and your life shall hang in doubt
before you; and you shall fear night and day, and shall have no
assurance of your life. {28:67} In the morning you shall say, "I wish
it were evening!" and at evening you shall say, "I wish it were
morning!" for the fear of your heart which you shall fear, and for the
sight of your eyes which you shall see. {28:68} The LORD will bring
you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to you,
You shall see it no more again: and there you shall sell yourselves to
your enemies for bondservants and for bondmaids, and no man shall buy
you.
{29:1} These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded
Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides
the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. {29:2} Moses called to
all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that the LORD did
before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his
servants, and to all his land; {29:3} the great trials which your eyes
saw, the signs, and those great wonders: {29:4} but the LORD has not
given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this
day. {29:5} I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes
have not grown old on you, and your shoes have not grown old on your
feet. {29:6} You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or
strong drink; that you may know that I am the LORD your God. {29:7}
When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the
king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them:
{29:8} and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the
Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the
Manassites. {29:9} Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do
them, that you may prosper in all that you do. {29:10} You stand this
day all of you before the LORD your God; your heads, your tribes, your
elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel, {29:11} your
little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the midst of
your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your
water; {29:12} that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your
God, and into his oath, which the LORD your God makes with you this
day; {29:13} that he may establish you this day to himself for a
people, and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke to you, and as he
swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. {29:14}
Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath, {29:15}
but with him who stands here with us this day before the LORD our God,
and also with him who is not here with us this day {29:16} (for you
know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the
midst of the nations through which you passed; {29:17} and you have
seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and
gold, which were among them); {29:18} lest there should be among you
man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day
from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest
there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood; {29:19}
and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless
himself in his heart, saying, "I shall have peace, though I walk in
the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry."
{29:20} The LORD will not pardon him, but then the anger of the LORD
and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that
is written in this book shall lie on him, and the LORD will blot out
his name from under the sky. {29:21} The LORD will set him apart to
evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of
the covenant that is written in this scroll of the Torah.
{29:22} The generation to come, your children who shall rise up
after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall
say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with
which the LORD has made it sick; {29:23} and that the whole land of it
is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any
grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah
and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
{29:24} even all the nations shall say, "Why has the LORD done thus to
this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?"
{29:25} Then men shall say, "Because they forsook the covenant of
the LORD, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he
brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, {29:26} and went and
served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they didn't know, and
that he had not given to them: {29:27} therefore the anger of the LORD
was kindled against this land, to bring on it all the curse that is
written in this book; {29:28} and the LORD rooted them out of their
land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them
into another land, as at this day."
{29:29} The secret things belong to the LORD our God; but the
things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever,
that we may do all the words of this law.
{30:1} It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the
blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall
call them to mind among all the nations, where the LORD your God has
driven you, {30:2} and shall return to the LORD your God, and shall
obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and
your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul; {30:3}
that then the LORD your God will turn your captivity, and have
compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the
peoples, where the LORD your God has scattered you. {30:4} If your
outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there will
the LORD your God gather you, and from there he will bring you back:
{30:5} and the LORD your God will bring you into the land which your
fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good,
and multiply you above your fathers. {30:6} The LORD your God will
circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love the LORD
your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may
live. {30:7} The LORD your God will put all these curses on your
enemies, and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. {30:8} You
shall return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his
commandments which I command you this day. {30:9} The LORD your God
will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of
your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of
your ground, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over you for
good, as he rejoiced over your fathers; {30:10} if you shall obey the
voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes
which are written in this scroll of the Torah; if you turn to the LORD
your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.
{30:11} For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not
too hard for you, neither is it far off. {30:12} It is not in heaven,
that you should say, "Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it
to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?" {30:13} Neither is
it beyond the sea, that you should say, "Who shall go over the sea for
us, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?"
{30:14} But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your
heart, that you may do it. {30:15} Behold, I have set before you this
day life and good, and death and evil; {30:16} in that I command you
this day to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep
his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that you may
live and multiply, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the
land where you go in to possess it. {30:17} But if your heart turns
away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship
other gods, and serve them; {30:18} I denounce to you this day, that
you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land,
where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it. {30:19} I call
heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set
before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore
choose life, that you may live, you and your seed; {30:20} to love the
LORD your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your
life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land
which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob, to give them.
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