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He will not even give them any of the flesh of his children he is eating, because it will be all he has left. Your enemy will surround you and make you starve in all your cities.
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The most gentle and kind woman among you, so gentle and kind she would hardly even walk on the ground, will be cruel to her husband whom she loves and to her son and daughter.
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She will give birth to a baby, but she will plan to eat the baby and what comes after the birth itself. She will eat them secretly while the enemy surrounds the city. Those people will make you starve in all your cities.
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Be careful to obey everything in these teachings that are written in this book. You must respect the glorious and wonderful name of the Lord your God,
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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.