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or the Lord will give terrible diseases to you and your descendants. You will have long and serious diseases, and long and miserable sicknesses.
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He will give you all the diseases of Egypt that you dread, and the diseases will stay with you.
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The Lord will also give you every disease and sickness not written in this Book of the Teachings, until you are destroyed.
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You people may have outnumbered the stars, but only a few of you will be left, because you did not obey the Lord your God.
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Just as the Lord was once happy with you and gave you good things and made you grow in number, so then the Lord will be happy to ruin and destroy you, and you will be removed from the land you are entering to take as your own.
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Then the Lord will scatter you among the nations -- from one end of the earth to the other. There you will serve other gods of wood and stone, gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known.
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You will have no rest among those nations and no place that is yours. The Lord will make your mind worried, your sight weak, and your soul sad.
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You will live with danger and be afraid night and day. You will not be sure that you will live.
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In the morning you will say, "I wish it were evening," and in the evening you will say, "I wish it were morning." Terror will be in your heart, and the things you have seen will scare you.
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The Lord will send you back to Egypt in ships, even though I, Moses, said you would never go back to Egypt. And there you will try to sell yourselves as slaves to your enemies, but no one will buy you.