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"You will plant plenty of seed, but reap only a small harvest, because the locusts will eat your crops.

You will plant vineyards and take care of them, but you will not gather their grapes or drink wine from them, because worms will eat the vines.

Olive trees will grow everywhere in your land, but you will not have any olive oil, because the olives will drop off.

You will have sons and daughters, but you will lose them, because they will be taken away as prisoners of war.

"All these disasters will come on you, and they will be with you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God and keep all the laws that he gave you.

Even the most refined man of noble birth will become so desperate during the siege that he will eat some of his own children because he has no other food. He will not even give any to his brother or to the wife he loves or to any of his children who are left.

Although you become as numerous as the stars in the sky, only a few of you will survive, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

And the answer will be, ‘It is because the Lord 's people broke the covenant they had made with him, the God of their ancestors, when he brought them out of Egypt.

When that happens, I will become angry with them; I will abandon them, and they will be destroyed. Many terrible disasters will come upon them, and then they will realize that these things are happening to them because I, their God, am no longer with them.

And I will refuse to help them then, because they have done evil and worshiped other gods.

I know that after my death the people will become wicked and reject what I have taught them. And in time to come they will meet with disaster, because they will have made the Lord angry by doing what he has forbidden."

because both of you were unfaithful to me in the presence of the people of Israel. When you were at the waters of Meribah, near the town of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, you dishonored me in the presence of the people.

May their land be filled with all that is good, Blessed by the goodness of the Lord , Who spoke from the burning bush. May these blessings come to the tribe of Joseph, Because he was the leader among his brothers.

Joshua son of Nun was filled with wisdom, because Moses had appointed him to be his successor. The people of Israel obeyed Joshua and kept the commands that the Lord had given them through Moses.

go through the camp and say to the people, "Get some food ready, because in three days you are going to cross the Jordan River to occupy the land that the Lord your God is giving you."

We were afraid as soon as we heard about it; we have all lost our courage because of you. The Lord your God is God in heaven above and here on earth.

Joshua told the people, "Purify yourselves, because tomorrow the Lord will perform miracles among you."

Because of this everyone on earth will know how great the Lord 's power is, and you will honor the Lord your God forever."

All the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the Mediterranean Sea heard that the Lord had dried up the Jordan until the people of Israel had crossed it. They became afraid and lost their courage because of the Israelites.

When the people of Israel left Egypt, all the males were already circumcised. However, during the forty years the people spent crossing the desert, none of the baby boys had been circumcised. Also, by the end of that time all the men who were of fighting age when they left Egypt had died because they had disobeyed the Lord . Just as he had sworn, they were not allowed to see the rich and fertile land that he had promised their ancestors.