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But the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam. Instead He changed the curse into good for you, because the Lord your God loves you.

If there is any man among you who is unclean because he had a flow from his body during the night, he must go away from the tents. He must not come among the tents.

Because the Lord your God walks among your tents to set you free and make you win the battle against those who hate you, the place where your tents are must be holy. He must not see anything among you that is unclean and turn away from you.

Be careful to do what you say you are going to do. Keep the promise you have made to the Lord your God because you want to.

"When a man takes a wife and marries her, and he does not like her because he finds something bad in her, he will write her a paper of divorce and give it to her and send her away from his house.

then her first husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her for his wife again, because she has become unclean. It is a hated thing to the Lord and you must not bring sin on the land the Lord your God is giving you.

Remember that you were servants in the land of Egypt. Because of this, I am telling you to do this.

You and the Levite and the stranger who is among you will be full of joy because of all the good the Lord your God has given you and those of your house.

Then say before the Lord your God, ‘I have taken the share for holy use from my house. I have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the child whose parents have died, and the woman whose husband has died. I have done this because of all Your Laws which You have told me to do. I have not sinned or forgotten any of Your Laws.

‘Cursed is the man who lies with his father's wife because he has taken off the clothes of her who belongs to his father.' And all the people will say, ‘Let it be so.'

"The Lord will send upon you curses, trouble and sharp words in all you try to do, until you are destroyed. You will be quick to die, because of the sinful things you do, and because you have turned away from Me.

All these curses will come upon you. They will follow you and come upon you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping all the Laws He gave you.

Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a glad heart because of all He has given you,

During this time and because of the trouble caused by those who hate you, you will eat your own children, the flesh of your sons and daughters whom the Lord your God has given you.

He will not give them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because it is all he has left for himself. This is how bad the trouble will be that those who hate you will bring to all your towns.

to the afterbirth which comes out of her body, and to the children who are born from her. She will eat them in secret because she has nothing else. This is how bad the trouble will be that those who hate you will bring to all your towns.

You will have been as many as the stars of heaven but there will be few of you left, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

In the morning you will say, ‘If it were only evening!' In the evening you will say, ‘If it were only morning!' because of the fear of your heart, and the things your eyes see.

Then men will say, ‘It is because they did not keep the agreement of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

Be strong and have strength of heart. Do not be afraid or shake with fear because of them. For the Lord your God is the One Who goes with you. He will be faithful to you. He will not leave you alone."