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You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the arbeh shall consume it.
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You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather [the grapes]; for the worm shall eat them.
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You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive shall cast [its fruit].
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You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.
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All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the arbeh possess.
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The sojourner who is in the midst of you shall mount up above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.
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He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
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All these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn't listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his mitzvot and his statutes which he commanded you:
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and they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed forever.
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Because you didn't serve the LORD your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
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therefore shall you serve your enemies whom the LORD shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he have destroyed you.