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"You shall have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.

"You shall have sons and daughters but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.

"The alien who is among you shall rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower.

"He shall lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you will be the tail.

"Among those nations you shall find no rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul.

"The LORD will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I spoke to you, 'You will never see it again!' And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer."

"When you reached this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out to meet us for battle, but we defeated them;

but both with those who stand here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God and with those who are not with us here today

"The LORD shall never be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the LORD and His jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse which is written in this book will rest on him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.

"The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law.

"But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may observe it.

"But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them,

"But I will surely hide My face in that day because of all the evil which they will do, for they will turn to other gods.

"They have acted corruptly toward Him, They are not His children, because of their defect; But are a perverse and crooked generation.

"But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— You are grown fat, thick, and sleek— Then he forsook God who made him, And scorned the Rock of his salvation.

"For you shall see the land at a distance, but you shall not go there, into the land which I am giving the sons of Israel."

Then the LORD said to him, "This is the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your descendants'; I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there."

And He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor; but no man knows his burial place to this day.

"This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success.

"Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle shall remain in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan, but you shall cross before your brothers in battle array, all your valiant warriors, and shall help them,