Deut 28
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And it shall come to pass, if you shall hearken diligently to the voice of YHWH your
God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that YHWH
your God will set you on high above all the nations of the earth:
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and all these blessings shall come upon you, and overtake you, if you shall hearken
to the voice of YHWH your God.
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Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.
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Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit
of your beasts, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
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Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.
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Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
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YHWH will cause your enemies that rise up against you to be smitten before you: they
shall come out against you one way, and shall flee before you seven ways.
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YHWH will command the blessing upon you in your barns, and in all that you put your
hand to; and he will bless you in the land which YHWH your God gives you.
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YHWH will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you; if you
shall keep the commandments of YHWH your God, and walk in his ways.
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And all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of YHWH;
and they shall be afraid of you.
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And YHWH will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit
of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which YHWH swore to your
fathers to give you.
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YHWH will open to you his good treasure the heavens, 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.
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And YHWH will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and
you shall not be beneath; if you shall hearken to the commandments of YHWH your God,
which I command you this day, to observe and to do [them],
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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.
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But it shall come to pass, if you will not hearken to the voice of YHWH your God,
to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day,
that all these curses shall come upon you, and overtake you.
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Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.
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Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.
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Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the increase
of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
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Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
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YHWH will send upon you cursing, discomfiture, and rebuke, in all that you put your
hand to to do, until you be destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the
evil of your doings, whereby you have forsaken me.
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YHWH will make the pestilence cleave to you, until he have consumed you from off the
land, where you go in to possess it.
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YHWH will smite you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with
fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall
pursue you until you perish.
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And your heaven that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under
you shall be iron.
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YHWH will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down
upon you, until you be destroyed.
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YHWH will cause you to be smitten before your enemies; you shall go out one way against
them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed to and from among
all the kingdoms of the earth.
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And your dead body shall be food to all birds of the heavens, and to the beasts of
the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away.
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YHWH will smite you with the boil of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scurvy,
and with the itch, whereof you can not be healed.
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YHWH will smite you with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart;
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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 alway, and there
shall be none to save you.
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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 the
fruit thereof.
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Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat thereof: your ass 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.
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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.
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The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you know not eat
up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed alway;
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so that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
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YHWH will smite you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, whereof you can
not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
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YHWH 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 shall you serve other gods, wood and
stone.
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And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples
where YHWH shall lead you away.
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You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the
locust shall consume it.
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You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine,
nor gather [the grapes]; for the worm shall eat them.
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You shall have olive-trees throughout all your borders, but you shall not anoint yourself
with the oil; for your olive shall cast [its fruit].
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You shall engender sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall
go into captivity.
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All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess.
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The sojourner that is in the midst of you shall mount up above you higher and higher;
and you shall come down lower and lower.
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He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you
shall be the tail.
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And all these curses shall come upon you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you,
till you be destroyed; because you hearkened not to the voice of YHWH your God, to
keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you:
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and they shall be upon you for a sign and for a wonder, and upon your seed for ever.
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Because you served not YHWH your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart,
by reason of the abundance of all things;
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therefore shall you serve your enemies that YHWH 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 upon your neck, until he have destroyed you.
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YHWH will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle
flies; a nation whose tongue you shall not understand;
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a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show
favor to the young,
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and shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your ground, until you be
destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of
your cattle, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
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And they shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls
come down, wherein you trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you
in all your gates throughout all your land, which YHWH your God has given you.
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And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters,
whom YHWH your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress wherewith your
enemies shall distress you.
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The man that 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;
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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 wherewith your
enemy shall distress you in all your gates.
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The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of
her foot upon 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,
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and toward her young one that 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 wherewith your enemy shall distress you in your gates.
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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, JEHOVAH THY GOD;
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then YHWH will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great
plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
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And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid
of; and they shall cleave to you.
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Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law,
them will YHWH bring upon you, until you be destroyed.
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And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude;
because you did not hearken to the voice of YHWH your God.
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And it shall come to pass, that, as YHWH rejoiced over you to do you good, and to
multiply you, so YHWH 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.
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And YHWH 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.
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And among these nations shall you find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the
sole of your foot: but YHWH will give you there a trembling heart, and failing of
eyes, and pining of soul;
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and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear night and day, and
shall have no assurance of your life.
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In the morning you shall say, Would it were even! and at even you shall say, Would
it were morning! for the fear of your heart which you shall fear, and for the sight
of your eyes which you shall see.
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And YHWH will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I said to
you, You shall see it no more again: and there you shall sell yourselves to your enemies
for bondmen and for bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.