Bible Cross References
curse
Proverbs 21:12
The righteous wisely considers the house of the wicked, subverting the wicked for their evil.
Leviticus 26:14-46
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But if you do not obey Me, and do not do all these commandments,
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and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not do all My commandments, but break My covenant,
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I also will do this to you: I will even appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume the eyes and cause pining away of soul. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
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I will set My face against you, and you shall be smitten by your enemies. Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you.
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And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
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I will break the pride of your power; I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
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And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.
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And if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey Me, I will bring upon you seven times more plagues, according to your sins.
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I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your highways shall be desolate.
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And if by these things you do not let yourselves be corrected by Me, but walk contrary to Me,
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then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
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And I will bring a sword against you that shall execute the vengeance of the covenant; when you are gathered together within your cities I will send pestilence among you; and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
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And when I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
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And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,
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then I also will walk contrary to you in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
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And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.
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And I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols; and My soul shall abhor you.
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And I will lay your cities waste and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.
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I will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.
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I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you; your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.
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Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in the land of your enemies; then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
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As long as it lies desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest on your sabbaths when you dwelt in it.
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And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a driven leaf shall cause them to flee; they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall when no one is pursuing.
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They shall stumble over one another, as it were before a sword, when no one is pursuing; and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
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You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall consume you.
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And those of you who are left shall rot away in their iniquity in the lands of their enemies; also in their fathers' iniquities, which are with them, they shall rot away.
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But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,
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and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt;
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then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember; and I will remember the land.
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The land also shall be forsaken by them, and shall be satisfied with its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; they shall accept their guilt, because they had despised My judgments and because their soul had abhorred My statutes.
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Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am Jehovah their God.
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But for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the eyes of the nations, that I might be their God: I am Jehovah.
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These are the statutes and judgments and laws which Jehovah has set between Himself and the children of Israel on Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
Deuteronomy 7:26
Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be utterly destroyed like it. You shall detest it unto abomination and loathe it unto abhorrence, for it is a prohibited thing.
Deuteronomy 28:15-68
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But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of Jehovah your God, to take heed to do all His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today, 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 bowl.
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Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, the offspring of your cattle and the increase of your flocks.
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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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Jehovah will send upon you cursing, turmoil, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your doings in which you have forsaken Me.
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Jehovah will make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from off the land which you are going in to possess.
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Jehovah will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with burning fever, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.
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And your heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron.
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Jehovah will make the rain of your land into dust and powder; from the heavens it shall come down upon you until you are destroyed.
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Jehovah will cause you to be stricken before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them; and you shall be an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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Your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth, and no one shall frighten them away.
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Jehovah will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors, with the scab, and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.
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Jehovah will strike you with madness and blindness and bewilderment of heart.
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And you shall grope at noonday, as a blind man gropes in darkness; you shall not prosper in your ways; you shall be only oppressed and plundered all your days, and no one shall deliver you.
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You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall lie with her; you shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but shall not begin to eat.
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Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be violently taken away from before you, and shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no one to rescue them.
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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 day long; and there shall be no might in your hand.
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A nation whom you have not known shall eat the fruit of your land and your produce, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually.
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Thus you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see.
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Jehovah will strike you in the knees and on the legs with severe boils which cannot be healed, and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.
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Jehovah will bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods; wood and stone.
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And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the nations where Jehovah shall drive you.
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You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.
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You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
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You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off.
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You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.
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Locusts shall dispossess all your trees and the produce of your land.
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The sojourners among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.
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He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
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Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of Jehovah your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He has commanded you.
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And they shall be upon you for a sign and a wonder, and upon your seed perpetually.
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Because you did not serve Jehovah your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things,
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therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom Jehovah will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron upon your neck until He has destroyed you.
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Jehovah will bring a nation against you from afar, from the ends of the earth, as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand,
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a nation of fierce countenance, which does not regard the face of the old nor show favor to the young.
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And they shall eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your land, until you are destroyed; they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil, or the offspring of your cattle or the increase of your flocks, until they have destroyed you.
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They shall besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which Jehovah your God has given to you.
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You shall eat the fruit of your own womb, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom Jehovah your God has given to you, in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemies shall distress you.
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The eye of the man who is tender and very delicate shall quiver with hostility toward his brother, toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the rest of his children whom he leaves behind,
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so that he will not give to any of them the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates.
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The eye of the tender and dainty woman among you, who would not have ventured to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and tenderness, will quiver with hostility toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son and her daughter,
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and toward her afterbirth which comes forth from between her feet and her children whom she bears; for she shall eat them secretly for lack of everything in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates.
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If you do not take heed to do all the Words of this Law that are written in this book, to fear this glorious and awesome name, JEHOVAH GOD,
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then Jehovah will bring upon you and your seed extraordinary plagues; great and long lasting plagues; and evil long lasting sicknesses.
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Moreover He will bring back upon you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cleave to you.
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Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will Jehovah bring upon you to destroy you.
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You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven in multitude, because you would not obey the voice of Jehovah your God.
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And it shall be, that just as Jehovah has rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so Jehovah will rejoice over you to destroy you and annihilate you; and you shall be torn away from off the land which you are going in to possess.
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And Jehovah will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known; wood and stone.
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And among those nations you shall find no rest, nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place; but there Jehovah shall give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and fainting soul.
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Your life shall hang in doubt before you; you shall fear day and night, and have no assurance of life.
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In the morning you shall say, Oh, that it were evening! And at evening you shall say, Oh, that it were morning! because of the fear which terrifies your heart, and because of the sight which your eyes see.
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And Jehovah will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I had said to you, You shall never see it again. And there you shall have been sold to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.
Deuteronomy 29:19-29
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and so it not happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he has blessed himself in his heart, thinking, I shall have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart; and thus to snatch away the watered with the thirsty.
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Jehovah will not consent to forgive him; for then the anger of Jehovah and His jealousy shall smoke against that man, and every curse that is written in this book shall lie down upon him, and Jehovah shall blot out his name from under the heavens.
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And Jehovah shall separate him from all the tribes of Israel for evil, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this Book of the Law,
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so that your children of the generations to come, who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, when they see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses which Jehovah has laid upon it, shall utter:
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The whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it sprout, nor does any grass grow there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in His anger and His wrath.
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And all the nations shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus unto this land? What is the meaning of this great burning anger?
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Then people shall say: Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah the God of their fathers, which He had made with them to bring them out of the land of Egypt;
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for they went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods that they had not known and that He had not apportioned to them.
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And the anger of Jehovah burned against this land, to bring upon it every curse that is written in this Book.
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And Jehovah uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
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Jehovah our God hides Himself; but reveals Himself to us and to our children forever, to do all the Words of this Law.
Joshua 6:18
And you shall altogether keep from the devoted things, that you not be accursed when you take of the devoted things, and make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.
Joshua 7:13
Get up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, because thus says Jehovah the God of Israel: There is a devoted thing in your midst, O Israel; you are not able to stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted thing from among you.
Psalm 37:22
For those blessed by Him shall inherit the earth, and those cursed by Him shall be cut off.
Zechariah 5:3
And he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth. For from now on everyone who steals shall be purged out according to it; and everyone who swears from now on shall be purged out according to it.
Zechariah 5:4
And I will bring it forth, says Jehovah of Hosts. And it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of the one who swears falsely by My name. And it shall remain in the midst of his house and shall make an end to it, and its timber, and its stones.
Malachi 2:2
If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to My name, says Jehovah of Hosts, then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. And indeed, I have cursed it, because you are not laying it to heart.
he blesseth
Deuteronomy 28:2-14
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And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of Jehovah 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 womb, the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your livestock, the offspring of your cattle and the increase of your flocks.
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Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
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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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Jehovah shall cause your enemies who rise against you to be stricken before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.
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Jehovah shall command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you put your hand, and He will bless you in the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you.
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Jehovah will establish you as a holy people unto Himself, as He has sworn unto you, if you keep the commandments of Jehovah your God and have walked in His ways.
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And all peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of Jehovah, and they shall be afraid of you.
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And Jehovah will make you exceed in prosperity, in the fruit of your womb, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land of which Jehovah has sworn to your fathers to give to you.
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Jehovah will open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
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And Jehovah will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you today, and take heed to do them.
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And you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I am commanding you this day, to the right or the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
2 Samuel 6:11
And the ark of Jehovah remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite three months. And Jehovah blessed Obed-Edom and all his house.
Job 8:6
if you were pure and upright, surely now He would awake for you, and would have restored your righteous abode.
Job 8:7
Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would increase abundantly.
Psalm 1:3
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth its fruit in its season, and its leaf shall not wither, and all that he does shall prosper.
Psalm 91:10
no evil shall befall you, nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;