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Your baskets and bread pans will be cursed.
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Your children will be cursed. Your crops will be cursed. Your calves and lambs will be cursed.
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You will be cursed no matter where you go.
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The LORD will send curses on you. You won't know what's going on. In everything you do, he will be angry with you. You will be destroyed suddenly and completely. That will happen because you did an evil thing when you deserted the LORD.
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He will send all kinds of sicknesses on you. He'll send them until he has destroyed you. He'll remove you from the land you are entering to take as your own.
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The LORD will make you sick and very weak. He will strike you with fever and swelling. He'll send burning heat. There won't be any rain. The hot winds will completely dry up your crops. All of those things will happen until you die.
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The sky above you will be like bronze. The ground beneath you will be like iron.
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The LORD will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder. It will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.
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The LORD will help your enemies win the battle over you. You will come at them from one direction. But you will run away from them in seven directions. You will look so bad that all of the kingdoms on earth will be completely shocked when they see you.
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Birds and wild animals will eat up your dead bodies. There won't be anyone left to scare them away.
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The LORD will send boils on you, just like the ones he sent on the Egyptians. You will have growths in your bodies and boils on your skin. You will itch all over. No one will be able to heal you.