rsv Deuteronomy:29:18-28 SEEK
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Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or family or tribe ,
whose heart turns away this day from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of those nations ;
lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit ,
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one who ,
when he hears the words of this sworn covenant ,
blesses himself in his heart ,
saying , `
I shall be safe ,
though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart .'
This would lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike .
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The LORD would not pardon him ,
but rather the anger of the LORD and his jealousy would smoke against that man ,
and the curses written in this book would settle upon him ,
and the LORD would blot out his name from under heaven .
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And the LORD would single him out from all the tribes of Israel for calamity ,
in accordance with all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law .
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And the generation to come ,
your children who rise up after you ,
and the foreigner who comes from a far land ,
would say ,
when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the LORD has made it sick --
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the whole land brimstone and salt ,
and a burnt-out waste ,
unsown ,
and growing nothing ,
where no grass can sprout ,
an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomor '
rah ,
Admah and Zeboi '
im ,
which the LORD overthrew in his anger and wrath --
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yea ,
all the nations would say , `
Why has the LORD done thus to this land ?
What means the heat of this great anger ?'
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Then men would say , `
It is because they forsook the covenant of the LORD ,
the God of their fathers ,
which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt ,
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and went and served other gods and worshiped them ,
gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them ;
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therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land ,
bringing upon it all the curses written in this book ;
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and the LORD uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath ,
and cast them into another land ,
as at this day .'