| 1: And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently
unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments
which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above
all nations of the earth: |
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| 2: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou
shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. |
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Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the
field. |
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| 4: Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground,
and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy
sheep. |
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| 5: Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. |
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| 6: Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be
when thou goest out. |
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| 7: The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be
smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee
before thee seven ways. |
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| 8: The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and
in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land
which the LORD thy God giveth thee. |
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| 9: The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath
sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and
walk in his ways. |
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| 10: And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the
name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee. |
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| 11: And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy
body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the
land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee. |
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| 12: The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give
the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand:
and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. |
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| 13: And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou
shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto
the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe
and to do them: |
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| 14: And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command
thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to
serve them. |
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| 15: But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of
the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I
command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake
thee: |
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| 16: Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the
field. |
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| 17: Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. |
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| 18: Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the
increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. |
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| 19: Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be
when thou goest out. |
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| 20: The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all
that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until
thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast
forsaken me. |
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| 21: The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have
consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. |
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| 22: The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and
with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with
blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. |
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| 23: And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth
that is under thee shall be iron. |
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| 24: The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven
shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed. |
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| 25: The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou
shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be
removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. |
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| 26: And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the
beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away. |
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| 27: The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the
emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
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| 28: The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and
astonishment of heart: |
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| 29: And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness,
and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and
spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee. |
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| 30: Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou
shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a
vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof. |
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| 31: Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat
thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall
not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou
shalt have none to rescue them. |
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| 32: Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and
thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and
there shall be no might in thine hand. |
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| 33: The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou
knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed always: |
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| 34: So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou
shalt see. |
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| 35: The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore
botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
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| 36: The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over
thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there
shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. |
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| 37: And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among
all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee. |
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| 38: Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but
little in; for the locust shall consume it. |
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| 39: Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink
of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. |
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| 40: Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt
not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit. |
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| 41: Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them;
for they shall go into captivity. |
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| 42: All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
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| 43: The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high;
and thou shalt come down very low. |
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| 44: He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be
the head, and thou shalt be the tail. |
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| 45: Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue
thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not
unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes
which he commanded thee: |
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| 46: And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy
seed for ever. |
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| 47: Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with
gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; |
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| 48: Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send
against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all
things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed
thee. |
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| 49: The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of
the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not
understand; |
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| 50: A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of
the old, nor shew favour to the young: |
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| 51: And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land,
until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or
oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have
destroyed thee. |
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| 52: And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced
walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall
besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God
hath given thee. |
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| 53: And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons
and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and
in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: |
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| 54: So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye
shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward
the remnant of his children which he shall leave: |
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| 55: So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children
whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the
straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. |
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| 56: The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to
set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her
eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and
toward her daughter, |
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| 57: And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and
toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all
things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall
distress thee in thy gates. |
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| 58: If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are
written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE
LORD THY GOD; |
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| 59: Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy
seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of
long continuance. |
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| 60: Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which
thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. |
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| 61: Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the
book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
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| 62: And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of
heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy
God. |
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| 63: And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do
you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you,
and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither
thou goest to possess it. |
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| 64: And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of
the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which
neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. |
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| 65: And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the
sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling
heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: |
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| 66: And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day
and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: |
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| 67: In the morning thou alt say, Would God it were even! and at even
thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith
thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. |
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| 68: And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way
whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall
be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
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