Deuteronomy:27-28

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* And Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people , saying , Keep all the commandment which I command you this day . * And it shall be on the day when ye pass over the Jordan unto the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee , that thou shalt set thee up great stones , and plaster them with plaster : * and thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law , when thou goest over that thou mayest enter into the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee , a land flowing with milk and honey , as Jehovah the God of thy fathers hath promised thee . * And it shall be when ye go over the Jordan , that ye shall set up these stones , as I command you this day , on mount Ebal , and thou shalt plaster them with plaster . * And there shalt thou build an altar to Jehovah thy God , an altar of stones ; thou shalt not lift up an iron [tool ] upon them ; * of whole stones shalt thou build the altar of Jehovah thy God ; and thou shalt offer up burnt-offerings thereon to Jehovah thy God . * And thou shalt sacrifice peace-offerings , and shalt eat there , and rejoice before Jehovah thy God . * And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly . * And Moses and the priests , the Levites , spoke to all Israel , saying , Be silent and hearken , Israel ! this day thou art become the people of Jehovah thy God . * And thou shalt hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God , and do his commandments and his statutes , which I command thee this day . * And Moses gave commandment to the people the same day , saying , * These shall stand to bless the people upon mount Gerizim , when ye have gone over the Jordan : Simeon , and Levi , and Judah , and Issachar , and Joseph , and Benjamin . * And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse : Reuben , Gad , and Asher , and Zebulun , Dan , and Naphtali . * And the Levites shall declare and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice : * Cursed be the man that maketh a graven or molten image , an abomination to Jehovah , a work of the craftsman 's hand , and putteth it up secretly ! And all the people shall answer and say , Amen . * Cursed be he that slighteth his father or his mother ! And all the people shall say , Amen . * Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour 's landmark ! And all the people shall say , Amen . * Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way ! And all the people shall say , Amen . * Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger , fatherless , and widow ! And all the people shall say , Amen . * Cursed be he that lieth with his father 's wife ; for he uncovereth his father 's skirt ! And all the people shall say , Amen . * Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast ! And all the people shall say , Amen . * Cursed be he that lieth with his sister , the daughter of his father , or the daughter of his mother ! And all the people shall say , Amen . * Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law ! And all the people shall say , Amen . * Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly ! And all the people shall say , Amen . * Cursed be he that taketh reward to smite mortally [shedding ] innocent blood ! And all the people shall say , Amen . * Cursed be he that confirmeth not the words of this law to do them ! And all the people shall say , Amen . * And it shall come to pass , if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Jehovah thy God , to take heed to do all his commandments which I command thee this day , that Jehovah thy God will set thee supreme above all nations of the earth ; * and all these blessings shall come on thee and overtake thee , if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God . * Blessed shalt thou be in the city , and blessed shalt thou be in the field . * Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb , and the fruit of thy ground , and the fruit of thy cattle , the offspring of thy kine , and the increase of thy sheep . * Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough . * Blessed shalt thou be in thy coming in , and blessed shalt thou be in thy going out . * Jehovah will give up , smitten before thee , thine enemies that rise up against thee ; they shall come out against thee one way , and by seven ways shall they flee before thee . * Jehovah will command blessing on thee in thy granaries , and in all the business of thy hand ; and he will bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee . * Jehovah will establish thee unto himself a holy people as he hath sworn unto thee , if thou keep the commandments of Jehovah thy God , and walk in his ways . * And all peoples of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of Jehovah , and they shall be afraid of thee . * And Jehovah will give thee abundance of good , in the fruit of thy body , and in the fruit of thy cattle , and in the fruit of thy ground , in the land that Jehovah swore unto thy fathers to give thee . * Jehovah will open to thee his good treasure , the heavens , to give rain unto thy land in its season , and to bless all the work of thy hand ; and thou shalt lend unto many nations , but thou shalt not borrow . * And Jehovah will make thee the head , and not the tail ; and thou shalt be above only , and thou shalt not be beneath ; if thou hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah thy God , which I command thee this day , to keep and to do them , * and if thou turn not aside from any of the words that I command thee this day , to the right hand or to the left , to go after other gods to serve them . * But it shall come to pass if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God , to take heed to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day , that all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee . * Cursed shalt thou be in the city , and cursed shalt thou be in the field . * Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough . * Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb , and the fruit of thy ground , the offspring of thy kine , and the increase of thy sheep . * Cursed shalt thou be in thy coming in , and cursed shalt thou be in thy going out . * Jehovah will send upon thee cursing , confusion , and rebuke , in all the business of thy hand which thou doest , until thou be destroyed and until thou perish quickly , because of the wickedness of thy doings , whereby thou hast forsaken me . * Jehovah will make the pestilence cleave unto thee , until he have consumed thee from off the land whither thou goest to possess it . * Jehovah will smite thee with consumption , and with fever , and with inflammation , and with burning ague , and with drought , and with blight , and with mildew , and they shall pursue thee until thou perish . * And thy heavens which are over thy head shall be brass , and the earth which is under thee , iron . * Jehovah will give as the rain of thy land powder and dust ; from the heavens shall it come down upon thee until thou be destroyed . * Jehovah will give thee up smitten before thine enemies ; thou shalt go out against them one way , and by seven ways shalt thou flee before them ; and thou shalt be driven hither and thither into all the kingdoms of the earth . * And thy carcase shall be meat unto all the fowl of the air , and unto the beasts of the earth , and there shall be no man to scare them away . * Jehovah will smite thee with the ulcers of Egypt , and with boils , and with the scab , and with the itch , whereof thou canst not be healed . * Jehovah will smite thee with madness , and with blindness , and with astonishment of heart ; * and thou shalt grope at noonday , as the blind gropeth in darkness , and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways ; and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled continually , and there shall be none to save . * Thou shalt betroth a wife , and another man shall lie with her ; thou shalt build a house , and thou shalt not dwell therein ; thou shalt plant a vineyard , and shalt not eat of it . * Thine ox shall be slaughtered before thine eyes , and thou shalt not eat thereof ; thine ass shall be snatched away from before thy face , and shall not return to thee ; thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies , and thou shalt have none to recover them . * Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people , and thine eyes shall look , and languish for them all the day long ; and there shall be no power in thy hand [to help it ]. * The fruit of thy ground and all thy labour , shall a people that thou knowest not eat up ; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed continually . * And thou shalt be mad through the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see . * Jehovah will smite thee in the knees and in the legs with evil ulcers , whereof thou canst not be healed , from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head . * Jehovah will bring thee , and thy king whom thou shalt set over thee , unto a nation that neither thou nor thy fathers have known , and there shalt thou serve other gods , wood and stone . * And thou shalt become an astonishment , a proverb , and a byword , among all the peoples whither Jehovah shall lead thee . * Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field , and shalt gather little in ; for the locust shall devour it . * Thou shalt plant and till vineyards , but shalt drink no wine , nor gather [the fruit ]; for the worms shall eat it . * Olive-trees shalt thou have throughout all thy borders , but thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil ; for thine olive-tree shall cast its fruit . * Sons and daughters shalt thou beget , but thou shalt not have them [to be with thee ]; for they shall go into captivity . * All thy trees and the fruit of thy ground shall the locust possess . * The sojourner that is in thy midst shall rise above thee higher and higher , and thou shalt sink down lower and lower . * He shall lend to thee , but thou shalt not lend to him : he shall be the head , and thou shalt be the tail . * And all these curses shall come upon thee , and shall pursue thee , and overtake thee , until thou be destroyed ; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of Jehovah thy God , to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee . * And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder , and upon thy seed for ever . * Because thou servedst not Jehovah thy God with joyfulness , and with gladness of heart , for the abundance of everything , * thou shalt serve thine enemies whom Jehovah will send against thee , in hunger , and in thirst , and in nakedness , and in want of everything ; and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck , until he have destroyed thee . * Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from afar , from the end of the earth , like as the eagle flieth , a nation whose tongue thou understandest not ; * a nation of fierce countenance , which regardeth not the person of the old , nor is kind to the young ; * and he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle , and the fruit of thy ground , until thou be destroyed ; for he shall not leave thee corn , new wine , or oil , offspring of thy kine , or increase of thy sheep , until he have destroyed thee . * And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates , until thy high and strong walls wherein thou trustedst come down , throughout all thy land ; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates in all thy land , which Jehovah thy God hath given thee . * And in the siege , and in the straitness , wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee , thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body , the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters whom Jehovah thy God hath given thee . * The eye of the man in thy midst that is tender and very luxurious shall be evil towards his brother , and the wife of his bosom , and the residue of his children which he hath left ; * so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children that he eateth , because he hath nothing left him in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates . * The eye of the tender and luxurious woman in thy midst who would not attempt to set the sole of her foot upon the ground from luxuriousness and from tenderness , shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom , and her son , and her daughter , * because of her afterbirth which hath come out between her feet , and her children whom she shall bear ; for she shall secretly eat them for want of everything in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates . * If thou wilt not take heed to do all the words of this law that are written in this book , to fear this glorious and fearful name , JEHOVAH THY GOD ; * then Jehovah will make thy plagues wonderful , and the plagues of thy seed , great and persistent plagues and evil and persistent sicknesses ; * and he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt which thou art afraid of , and they shall cleave unto thee . * Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law , them will Jehovah bring upon thee , until thou be destroyed . * And ye shall be left a small company , whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude ; because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God . * And it shall come to pass , that as Jehovah rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you , so Jehovah will rejoice over you to cause you to perish , and to destroy you ; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whereunto thou goest to possess it . * And Jehovah will scatter thee among all peoples , from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth ; and thou shalt there serve other gods , whom thou hast not known , neither thou nor thy fathers , wood and stone . * And among these nations shalt thou have no rest , neither shall the sole of thy foot have a resting-place , and Jehovah shall give thee there a trembling heart , languishing of the eyes , and pining of the soul . * And thy life shall hang in suspense before thee ; and thou shalt be in terror day and night and shalt be afraid of thy life . * In the morning thou shalt say , Would that it were even ! and in the evening thou shalt say , Would that it were morning ! through the fright of thy heart wherewith thou shalt be in terror , and through the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see . * And Jehovah will bring thee into Egypt again with ships , by the way whereof I said unto thee , Thou shalt see it again no more ; and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen , and there shall be no man to buy [you ]. * These are the words of the covenant that Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab , besides the covenant that he made with them in Horeb .

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