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"Now it shall be, if you diligentlyobey* the LORD your God, beingcareful to doall His commandmentswhich I command you today, the LORD your God will set you highaboveall the nations of the earth.
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"Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country.
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"Blessed shall be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground and the offspring of your beasts, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.
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"Blessed shall be your basket and your kneadingbowl.
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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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"The LORD shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeatedbefore you; they will come out against you oneway and will fleebefore you sevenways.
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"The LORD will command the blessing upon you in your barns and in all that you put your hand to, and He will bless you in the landwhich the LORD your Godgives you.
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"The LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the produce of your ground, in the landwhich the LORDswore to your fathers to give you.
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"The LORD will open for you His goodstorehouse, the heavens, to giverain to your land in its season and to blessall the work of your hand; and you shall lend to manynations, but you shall not borrow.
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"The LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you only will be above, and you will not be underneath, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I charge you today, to observe them carefully,
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"But it shall come about, if you do not obey* the LORD your God, to observe to doall His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that allthesecurses will come upon you and overtake you:
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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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"The LORD will send upon you curses, confusion, and rebuke, in all you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until you perishquickly, on account* of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Me.
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"The LORD will smite you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fieryheat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish.
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"The LORD shall cause you to be defeatedbefore your enemies; you will go out onewayagainst them, but you will fleesevenwaysbefore them, and you will be an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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and you will grope at noon, as the blindmangropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways; but you shall only be oppressed and robbedcontinually*, with none to save you.
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"You shall betroth a wife, but anotherman will violate her; you shall build a house, but you will not live in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but you will not use its fruit.
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"Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat of it; your donkey shall be tornaway from you, and will not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you will havenone to save you.
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"Your sons and your daughters shall be given to anotherpeople, while your eyeslook on and yearn for them continually*; but there will be nothing you can do.
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"A peoplewhom you do not know shall eat up the produce of your ground and all your labors, and you will never be anything but oppressed and crushedcontinually*.
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"The LORD will strike you on the knees and legs with soreboils, from which you cannot* be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
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"The LORD will bring you and your king, whom you setover you, to a nationwhichneither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serveothergods, wood and stone.
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"So allthesecurses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey* the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and His statuteswhich He commanded you.
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therefore you shall serve your enemieswhom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of allthings; and He will put an ironyoke on your neckuntil He has destroyed you.
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"The LORD will bring a nationagainst you from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagleswoopsdown, a nationwhoselanguage you shall not understand,
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"Moreover, it shall eat the offspring of your herd and the produce of your grounduntil you are destroyed, who also leaves you nograin, newwine, or oil, nor the increase of your herd or the young of your flockuntil they have caused you to perish.
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"It shall besiege you in all your townsuntil your high and fortifiedwalls in which you trustedcomedownthroughout your land, and it shall besiege you in all your townsthroughout your landwhich the LORD your God has given you.
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"Then you shall eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughterswhom the LORD your God has given you, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you.
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"The man who is refined and verydelicate among you shall be hostile toward his brother and toward the wife he cherishes and toward the rest of his childrenwhoremain,
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so that he will not give even one of them any of the flesh of his childrenwhich he will eat, since he has nothing* else left, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you in all your towns.
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"The refined and delicatewoman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and refinement, shall be hostile toward the husband she cherishes and toward her son and daughter,
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and toward her afterbirth which issues from between her legs and toward her childrenwhom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you in your towns.
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"It shall come about that as the LORDdelightedover you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the LORD will delightover you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be torn from the landwhere* you are entering to possess it.
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"Moreover, the LORD will scatter you among allpeoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serveothergods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known.
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"Among thosenations you shall findnorest, and there will be norestingplace for the sole of your foot; but there the LORD will give you a tremblingheart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul.
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"In the morning you shall say, 'Would* that it were evening!' And at evening you shall say, 'Would* that it were morning!' because of the dread of your heartwhich you dread, and for the sight of your eyeswhich you will see.
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"The LORD will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I spoke to you, 'You will neversee it again!' And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and femaleslaves*, but there will be nobuyer."