Cursed [shall] you [be] in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.

Cursed shall be the offspring of your body, and the fruits of your land, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep.

And he said, Cursed be the servant Canaan, a slave shall he be to his brothers.

And now, let my lord the king hear the word of his servant: if God stirs you up against me, let your offering be acceptable; but if [it is] the children of men, [may] they be cursed before the Lord, for they have cast me out this day, so that I should not be established in the inheritance of the Lord, saying, Go, serve other gods.

And you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Cursed is the man who shall not heed the words of this covenant

lest you transgress, and make to yourselves a carved image, any kind of figure, the likeness of male or female,

the likeness of any reptile which creeps on the earth, the likeness of any fish of those which are in the waters under the earth;

But God took you, and led you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to Him a people of inheritance, as it is this day.

For I am to die in this land, and shall not pass over this Jordan; but you are to pass over, and shall inherit this good land.

You shall not make to yourself an image, nor likeness of anything, whatever things [are] in the heaven above, and whatever [are] in the earth below, and whatever [are] in the waters under the earth.

You shall not make for yourself an idol, nor likeness of anything, whatever things are in the heaven above, and whatever are in the earth beneath, and whatever are in the waters under the earth.

You shall not make for yourselves gods of silver, and gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves.

And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people combined against Aaron, and said to him, Arise and make us gods who shall go before us; for this Moses, the man who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt- we do not know what has become of him.

And all the people took off the golden earrings that were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

And you shall not make to yourself molded gods.

You shall not follow idols, and you shall not make to yourselves molten gods: I [am] the Lord your God.

I [am] the Lord your God: you shall not make to yourselves gods made with hands, or graven [images]; neither shall you rear up a pillar for yourselves, neither shall you set up a stone [for] an object in your land to worship it: I am the Lord your God.

But they that framed [false gods] did not then hearken; and they that engraved [images] are all vain, performing their own desires, which shall not profit them, but they shall be ashamed

that form a god, and all that engrave worthless things;

And the rest he makes a graven god, and worships and prays, saying, Deliver me; for you are my god.

And now they have sinned increasingly, and have made for themselves a molten image of their silver, according to the fashion of idols, the work of artificers accomplished for them. they say, Sacrifice men, for the calves have come to an end.

Therefore shall they be as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that passes away, as chaff blown away from the threshing floor, and as a vapor from tears.

And you beheld their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which are among them.

For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the abomination of the Sidonians.

Then Solomon built a high place to Chemosh the idol of Moab, and to their king the idol of the children of Ammon.

And the king defiled the house that was before Jerusalem, on the right hand of the Mount of Mosthath, which Solomon king of Israel built to Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and to Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and to Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord destroyed from before the face of the children of Israel.

And one has not considered in his mind, nor known in his understanding, that he has burned up half of it in the fire, and baked loaves on its coals and has roasted and eaten flesh, and of the rest of it he has made an abomination, and they worship it.

[As for] their choice ornaments, they employed them for pride, and they made of them images of their abominations; therefore have I made them uncleanness to them.

And seeds shall spring up out of him, and they shall profane the sanctuary of strength, and they shall remove the perpetual [sacrifice], and make the abomination of desolation.

"Therefore when you see the 'abomination of desolation,' spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place" (whoever reads, let him understand),

And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, gilded with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup being filled with abominations and the filthiness of the fornication of the earth.

And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole her father's idols.

And Rachel took the idols, and cast them among the camel's packs, and sat upon them.

Even Judah as well kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but they walked according to the customs of Israel which they practiced, and rejected the Lord.

If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread out our hands to a strange god; shall not God search these things out?

for He knows the secrets of the heart.

Shall anyone hide himself in secret places, and I not see him? Do I not fill heaven and earth? Says the Lord.

And He brought me to the porch of the court.

And He said to me, Go in, and behold the iniquities which they practice here.

And seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and Jechoniah the son of Shaphan stood in their presence in the midst of them, and each one held his censer in his hand; and the smoke of the incense went up.

Therefore speak to them, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: Any man of the house of Israel, who shall conceive his devices in his heart, and shall set the punishment of his iniquity before his face, and shall come to the prophet; I the Lord will answer him [according to the things] in which his mind is entangled,

and this water bringing the curse shall enter into your womb to cause your belly to swell, and your thigh to rot. And the woman shall say, So be it, So be it.

that I may confirm My oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing [with] milk and honey, as [it is] this day. Then I answered and said, So be it, O Lord.

and Jeremiah said, May the Lord indeed do thus; may He confirm your word which you prophesy, to return the vessels of the house of the Lord, and all the captivity, out of Babylon to this place.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil [one]. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how will he who occupies the place of the uninformed say "Amen" when you give thanks, since he does not know what you are saying?