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APRIL 2
30 “You shall betroth a wife, but another man against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness,
shall lie with her; you shall build a house, but and in need of everything; and He will put a
you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vine- yoke of iron on your neck until He has
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yard, but shall not gather its grapes. Your ox destroyed you. The LORD will bring a nation
shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but against you from afar, from the end of the
you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation
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violently taken away from before you, and whose language you will not understand, a
shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall nation of fierce countenance, which does not
be given to your enemies, and you shall have respect the elderly nor show favor to the
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no one to rescue them. Your sons and your young. And they shall eat the increase of
daughters shall be given to another people, your livestock and the produce of your land,
and your eyes shall look and fail with longing until you are destroyed; they shall not leave
for them all day long; and there shall be no you grain or new wine or oil, or the increase of
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strength in your hand. A nation whom you your cattle or the offspring of your flocks, until
have not known shall eat the fruit of your land they have destroyed you.
and the produce of your labor, and you shall 52 “They shall besiege you at all your gates
be only oppressed and crushed continually. until your high and fortified walls, in which
34 So you shall be driven mad because of the you trust, come down throughout all your
sight which your eyes see. The LORD will land; and they shall besiege you at all your
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strike you in the knees and on the legs with gates throughout all your land which the LORD
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severe boils which cannot be healed, and from your God has given you. You shall eat the
the sole of your foot to the top of your head. fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons
36 “The LORD will bring you and the king and your daughters whom the LORD your God
whom you set over you to a nation which nei- has given you, in the siege and desperate
ther you nor your fathers have known, and straits in which your enemy shall distress you.
there you shall serve other gods—wood and 54 The sensitive and very refined man among
stone. And you shall become an astonish- you will be hostile toward his brother, toward
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ment, a proverb, and a byword among all the wife of his bosom, and toward the rest of
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nations where the LORD will drive you. his children whom he leaves behind, so that
38 “You shall carry much seed out to the field he will not give any of them the flesh of his
but gather little in, for the locust shall con- children whom he will eat, because he has
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sume it. You shall plant vineyards and tend nothing left in the siege and desperate straits
them, but you shall neither drink of the wine in which your enemy shall distress you at all
nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat your gates. The tender and delicate woman
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them. You shall have olive trees throughout among you, who would not venture to set the
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all your territory, but you shall not anoint your- sole of her foot on the ground because of her
self with the oil; for your olives shall drop off. delicateness and sensitivity, will refuse to the
41 You shall beget sons and daughters, but they husband of her bosom, and to her son and her
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shall not be yours; for they shall go into cap- daughter, her placenta which comes out from
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tivity. Locusts shall consume all your trees between her feet and her children whom she
and the produce of your land. bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of
43 “The alien who is among you shall rise everything in the siege and desperate straits
higher and higher above you, and you shall in which your enemy shall distress you at all
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come down lower and lower. He shall lend to your gates.
you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be 58 “If you do not carefully observe all the
the head, and you shall be the tail. words of this law that are written in this book,
45 “Moreover all these curses shall come that you may fear this glorious and awesome
upon you and pursue and overtake you, until name, THE LORD YOUR GOD, then the
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you are destroyed, because you did not obey LORD will bring upon you and your descen-
the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His dants extraordinary plagues—great and pro-
commandments and His statutes which He longed plagues—and serious and prolonged
commanded you. And they shall be upon you sicknesses. Moreover He will bring back on
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for a sign and a wonder, and on your descen- you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you
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dants forever. were afraid, and they shall cling to you. Also
47 “Because you did not serve the LORD your every sickness and every plague, which is not
God with joy and gladness of heart, for the written in this Book of the Law, will the LORD
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abundance of everything, therefore you shall bring upon you until you are destroyed. You
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serve your enemies, whom the LORD will send shall be left few in number, whereas you were
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