Bible Cross References
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Deuteronomy 31:10-12
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And Moses charged them in that day, saying, After seven years, in the time of the year of release, in the Feast of Tabernacles,
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when all Israel comes together to appear before the Lord your God, in the place which the Lord shall choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their ears,
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having assembled the people, the men, and the women, and the children, and the stranger that is in your cities, that they may hear, and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God; and they shall hearken to do all the words of this law.
Nehemiah 8:2
So Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and everyone who had understanding [was present] to hear, on the first day of the seventh month.
Nehemiah 8:3
And he read in it from sunrise until midday, before the men and the women; and they understood [it], and the ears of all the people [were attentive] to the Book of the Law.
Nehemiah 9:3
And they stood in their place, and read in the Book of the Law of the Lord their God; and they confessed [their sins] to the Lord, and worshipped the Lord their God.
Nehemiah 13:1
In that day they read in the Book of Moses in the ears of the people; and it was found written in it, that the Ammonites and Moabites should not enter into the congregation of God forever;
blessings
Leviticus 26:1-46
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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.
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You shall keep My Sabbaths, and reverence My sanctuaries: I am the Lord.
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If you will walk in My ordinances, and keep My commandments, and do them,
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then will I give you the rain in its season, and the land shall produce its fruits, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
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And your threshing time shall overtake the vintage, and your vintage shall overtake your seedtime; and you shall eat your bread to the full; and you shall dwell safely upon your land, and war shall not go through your land.
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And I will give peace in your land, and you shall sleep, and none [shall] make you afraid; and I will destroy the evil beasts out of your land,
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and you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall before you with slaughter.
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And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase tens of thousands; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
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And I will look upon you, and increase you, and multiply you, and establish My covenant with you.
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And you shall eat that which is old and very old, and bring forth the old to make way for the new.
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And I will set My tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you;
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and I will walk among you, and be your God, and you shall be My people.
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I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, where you were slaves; and I broke the band of your yoke, and brought you forth openly.
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But if you will not hearken to Me, nor obey these My ordinances,
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but disobey them, and your soul should loathe My judgments, so that you should not keep all My commands, so as to break My covenant,
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then will I do thus to you: I will even bring upon you perplexity and the itch, and the fever that causes your eyes to waste away, and [disease] that consumes your life; and you shall sow your seeds in vain, and your enemies shall eat them.
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And I will set My face against you, and you shall fall before your enemies, and they that hate you shall pursue you; and you shall flee, no one pursuing you.
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And if you still refuse to hearken to Me, then will I chasten you yet more, even seven times for your sins.
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And I will break down the haughtiness of your pride; and I will make your heaven iron, and your earth like brass.
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And your strength shall be in vain; and your land shall not yield its seed, and the tree of your field shall not yield its fruit.
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And if after this you should walk perversely, and not be willing to obey Me, I will further bring upon you seven plagues according to your sins.
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And I will send upon you the wild beasts of the land, and they shall devour you, and shall consume your cattle; and I will make you few in number, and your ways shall be desolate.
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And if hereupon you are not corrected, but walk perversely towards Me,
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I also will walk with you with a perverse spirit, and I also will smite you seven times for your sins.
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And I will bring upon you a sword avenging the cause of [My] covenant, and you shall flee for refuge to your cities; and I will send out death against you, and you shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies.
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When I afflict you with famine of bread, then ten women shall bake your loaves in one oven, and they shall render your loaves by weight; and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
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And if hereupon you will not obey Me, but walk perversely towards Me,
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then will I walk contrary to you in fury, and I will chasten you seven-fold according to your sins.
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And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat.
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And I will render your pillars desolate, and will utterly destroy your wooden [images] made with hands; and I will lay your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols, and My soul shall loathe you.
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And I will lay your cities waste, and I will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell the savor of your sacrifices.
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And I will lay your land desolate, and your enemies who dwell in it shall wonder at it.
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And I will scatter you among the nations, and the sword shall come upon you and consume you; and your land shall be desolate, and your cities shall be desolate.
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Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days of its desolation.
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And you shall be in the land of your enemies; then the land shall keep its Sabbaths, and the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days of its desolation: it shall keep Sabbaths which it kept not among your Sabbaths, when you dwelt in it.
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And to those who are left of you I will bring bondage into their heart in the land of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee as fleeing from war, and shall fall when none pursues them.
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And brother shall disregard brother as in war, when none pursues; and you shall not be able to withstand your enemies.
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And you shall perish among the Gentiles, and the land of your enemies shall devour you.
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And those who are left of you shall perish, because of their sins, and because of the sins of their fathers: in the land of their enemies shall they consume away.
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And they shall confess their sins, and the sins of their fathers, that they have transgressed and neglected Me, and that they have walked perversely before Me,
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and I walked with them with a perverse mind; and I will destroy them in the land of their enemies: then shall their uncircumcised heart be ashamed, and then shall they acquiesce in [the punishment of] their sins.
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And I will remember the covenant of Jacob, and the covenant of Isaac, and the covenant of Abraham will I remember.
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And I will remember the land, and the land shall be left of them; then the land shall enjoy her Sabbaths, when it is deserted through them; and they shall accept [the punishment of] their iniquities, because they neglected My judgments, and in their soul loathed My ordinances.
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And yet not even thus, while they were in the land of their enemies, did I overlook them, nor did I loathe them so as to consume them, to break My covenant made with them; for I am the Lord their God.
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And I will remember their former covenant, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage before the nation, to be their God; I am the Lord.
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These are My judgments and My ordinances, and the law which the Lord gave between himself and the children of Israel, in Mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.
Deuteronomy 27:14-26
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And the Levites shall answer and say to all Israel with a loud voice,
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Cursed [is] the man whosoever shall make a graven or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of craftsmen, and shall put it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, So be it.
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Cursed is the man that dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, So be it.
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Cursed is the man that removes his neighbor's landmarks. And all the people shall say, So be it.
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Cursed is he that makes the blind to wander in the way. And all the people shall say, So be it.
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Cursed is everyone that shall pervert the judgment of the stranger, and orphan, and widow. And all the people shall say, So be it.
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Cursed is he that lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt: and all the people shall say, So be it.
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Cursed is he that lies with any beast. And all the people shall say, So be it.
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Cursed is he that lies with his sister by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, So be it.
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Cursed is he that lies with his daughter-in-law. And all the people shall say, So be it. Cursed is he that lies with his wife's sister. And all the people shall say, So be it.
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Cursed is he that attacks his neighbor secretly. And all the people shall say, So be it.
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Cursed is he whosoever shall have taken a bribe to slay an innocent man. And all the people shall say, So be it.
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Cursed is every man that continues not in all the words of this law, to do them. And all the people shall say, So be it.
Deuteronomy 28:1-68
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And it shall come to pass, if you will indeed hear the voice of the Lord your God, to observe and do all these commands which I charge you this day, that the Lord your God shall set you on high above all the nations of the earth;
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and all these blessings shall come upon you, and shall find you. If you will indeed hear the voice of the Lord 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 offspring of your body, and the fruits of your land, and the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep.
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Blessed shall be your barns, and your stores.
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Blessed shall you be in your coming in, and blessed shall you be in your going out.
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The Lord shall cause your enemies that withstand you to be utterly broken before your face- they shall come out against you one way, and they shall flee seven ways from before you.
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The Lord shall send upon you His blessing in your barns, and on all on which you shall put your hand, in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
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The Lord shall raise you up as a holy people unto Himself, as He swore to your fathers; if you will hear the voice of the Lord your God, and walk in all His ways.
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And all the nations of the earth shall see you, that the name of the Lord is called upon you, and they shall stand in awe of you.
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And the Lord your God shall multiply you for good in the offspring of your body, and in the offspring of your livestock, and in the fruits of your land, on your land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to you.
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May the Lord open to you His good treasure [from out of] the heavens, to give rain to your land in season; may He bless all the works of your hands. So shall you lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
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The Lord your God shall make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall then be above and you shall not be below, if you will hearken to the voice of the Lord your God, in all things that I command you this day to observe.
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You shall not turn aside from any of the commandments, 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 the Lord your God, to observe all His commandments, as many as I command you this day, then all these curses shall come on 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 barns and your stores.
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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.
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Cursed shall you be in your coming in, and cursed shall you be in your going out.
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The Lord shall send upon you [various] needs, and famine, and consumption of all things on which you shall put your hand, until He has utterly destroyed you, and until He has consumed you quickly because of your evil devices, because you have forsaken Him.
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The Lord shall cause the pestilence to cleave to you, until He has consumed you off the land into which you go to inherit it.
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The Lord smite you with distress, and fever, and cold, and inflammation, and blighting, and paleness, and they shall pursue you until they have destroyed you.
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And you shall have over your head a sky of brass, and the earth under you shall be iron.
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The Lord your God shall make the rain of your land dust; and dust shall come down from heaven, until it has destroyed you, and until it has quickly consumed you.
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The Lord shall give you up for slaughter before your enemies; you shall go out against them one way, and flee from their face seven ways; and you shall be a dispersion in all the kingdoms of the earth.
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And your dead men shall be food to the birds of the sky, and to the beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to scare them away.
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The Lord shall smite you with the botch of Egypt in the seat, and with a malignant scab, and itch, so that you can not be healed.
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The Lord shall smite you with insanity, and blindness, and astonishment of mind.
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And you shall grope at midday, as a blind man gropes in the darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways; and then you shall be unjustly treated, and plundered continually, and there shall be no helper.
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You shall take a wife, and another man shall have her; you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes of it.
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Your calf [shall be] slain before you, and you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be violently taken away from you, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no helper.
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Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another nation, and your eyes, wasting away, shall look for them; your hand shall have no strength.
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A nation which you know not shall eat the produce of your land, and all your labors; and you shall be perpetually injured and crushed.
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And you shall be distracted, because of the sights of your eyes which you shall see.
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The Lord shall smite you with an evil sore, on the knees and the legs, so that you shall not be able to be healed from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
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The Lord shall carry away you and your princes, whom you shall set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers know; and there shall you serve other gods, [of] wood and stone.
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And there shall you be a wonder and a parable, and a tale, among all the nations, to which the Lord your God shall carry you away.
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You shall carry forth much seed into the field, and you shall bring in little, because the locust shall devour it.
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You shall plant a vineyard, and dress it, and shall not drink the wine, neither shall you delight yourself with it, because the worm shall devour it.
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You shall have olive trees in all your borders, and you shall not anoint you with oil, because your olive shall utterly cast [its fruit].
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You shall beget sons and daughters, and they shall not be [yours], for they shall depart into captivity.
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All your trees and the fruits of your land shall the blight consume.
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The stranger that is within you shall be lifted up, and you shall be brought down very low.
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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 shall overtake you, until He has consumed you, and until He has destroyed you, because you did not hearken to the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commands and His statutes which He has commanded you.
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And [these things] shall be signs for you, and wonders among your seed forever;
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because you did not serve the Lord your God with gladness and a good heart, because of the abundance of all things.
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And you shall serve your enemies, which the Lord will send forth against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in the desire of all things; and you shall wear upon your neck a yoke of iron until He has destroyed you.
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The Lord shall bring upon you a nation from the extremity of the earth, like the swift flying of an eagle, a nation whose voice you shall not understand;
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a nation bold in countenance, which shall not respect the person of the aged and shall not pity the young.
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And it shall eat up the young of your livestock, and the fruits of your land, so as not to leave to you grain, wine, oil, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep, until it has destroyed you;
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and has utterly crushed you in your cities, until the high and strong walls be destroyed in which you trusted, in all your land; and it shall afflict you in your cities, which He has given to you.
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And you shall eat the fruit of your body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, all that He has given you, in your desperate straits and your affliction, with which your enemy shall afflict you.
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He that is tender and very delicate within you shall look with an evil eye upon his brother, and the wife in his bosom, and the children that are left, which may have been left to him;
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so as [not] to give to one of them of the flesh of his children, whom he shall eat, because of his having nothing left him in your desperate straits, and in your affliction, with which your enemies shall afflict you in all your cities.
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And she that is tender and delicate among you, whose foot has not ventured to go upon the earth for delicacy and tenderness, shall look with an evil eye on her husband in her bosom, and her son and her daughter,
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and her offspring that comes out between her feet, and the child which she shall bear; for she shall eat them because of the needs of all things, secretly in your desperate straits, and in your affliction, with which your enemy shall afflict you in your cities.
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If you will not hearken to do all the words of this law, which have been written in this book, to fear this glorious and wonderful name, THE LORD YOUR GOD;
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then shall the Lord magnify your plagues, and the plagues of your seed, great and wonderful plagues, and evil and abiding diseases.
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And He shall bring upon you all the evil pain of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cleave to you.
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And the Lord shall bring upon you every sickness, and every plague that is not written, and everyone that is written in the book of this law, until He has destroyed you.
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And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the sky in multitude; because you did not hearken to the voice of the Lord your God.
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And it shall come to pass that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you; and you shall be quickly removed from the land, into which you go to inherit it.
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And the Lord your God shall scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other; and there you shall serve other gods [of] wood and stone, which you knew not, nor your fathers.
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Moreover among those nations He will not give you quiet, neither by any means shall the sole of your foot have rest; and the Lord shall give you there another and a misgiving heart, and failing eyes, and a wasting soul.
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And your life shall be in suspense before your eyes, and you shall be afraid by day and by night, and you shall have no assurance of your life.
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In the morning you shall say, If only it were evening! And in the evening you shall say, If only it were morning! For the fear of your heart with which you shall fear, and for the sights of your eyes which you shall see.
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And the Lord shall bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said, You shall not see it again; and you shall be sold there to your enemies as male and female slaves, and no one shall buy you.
Deuteronomy 29:20
God shall by no means be willing to pardon him, but then the wrath of the Lord and His jealousy shall flame out against that man; and all the curses of this covenant shall attach themselves to him, which are written in this book, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.
Deuteronomy 29:21
And the Lord shall separate that man for evil of all the children of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in the book of this law.
Deuteronomy 30:15-20
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Behold, I have set before you this day life and death, good and evil.
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If you will hearken to the commands of the Lord your God which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, and to keep His statutes, and His judgments; then you shall live, and shall be many in number, and the Lord your God shall bless you in all the land into which you go to inherit it.
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But if your heart should change, and you will not hearken, and you shall go astray and worship other gods, and serve them,
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I declare to you this day, that you shall utterly perish, and you shall by no means live long upon the land into which you go over the Jordan to inherit it.
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I call both heaven and earth to witness this day against you, I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: choose life, that you and your seed may live;
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to love the Lord your God, to hearken to His voice, and cleave to Him; for this [is] your life, and the length of your days, that you should dwell upon the land, which the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them.