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You will have sons and daughters, but you will not be able to keep them, because they will be taken captive.

Foreigners will lend money to you, but you will not be able to lend to them. They will be like the head, and you will be like the tail.

You had plenty of everything, but you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a pure heart,

That nation will surround and attack all your cities. You trust in your high, strong walls, but they will fall down. That nation will surround all your cities everywhere in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

She will give birth to a baby, but she will plan to eat the baby and what comes after the birth itself. She will eat them secretly while the enemy surrounds the city. Those people will make you starve in all your cities.

You people may have outnumbered the stars, but only a few of you will be left, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

The Lord will send you back to Egypt in ships, even though I, Moses, said you would never go back to Egypt. And there you will try to sell yourselves as slaves to your enemies, but no one will buy you.

But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind that understands; you don't really understand what you see with your eyes or hear with your ears.

When you came to this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to fight us, but we defeated them.

But I am not just making this agreement and its promises with you

who are standing here before the Lord your God today, but also with those who are not here today.

These are the kind of people who hear these curses but bless themselves, thinking, "We will be safe even though we continue doing what we want to do." Those people may destroy all of your land, both wet and dry.

"The land is nothing but burning cinders and salt. Nothing is planted, nothing grows, and nothing blooms. It is like Sodom and Gomorrah, and Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed because he was very angry."

There are some things the Lord our God has kept secret, but there are some things he has let us know. These things belong to us and our children forever so that we will do everything in these teachings.

He may send you to the ends of the earth, but he will gather you and bring you back from there,

But you must obey the Lord your God by keeping all his commands and rules that are written in this Book of the Teachings. You must return to the Lord your God with your whole being.

But if you turn away from the Lord and do not obey him, if you are led to bow and serve other gods,

And the Lord said to Moses, "You will soon die. Then these people will not be loyal to me but will worship the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will leave me, breaking the Agreement I made with them.

But I didn't want their enemy to brag; their enemy might misunderstand and say, ‘We have won! The Lord has done none of this.'"

"Now you will see that I am the one God! There is no god but me. I send life and death; I can hurt, and I can heal. No one can escape from me.