Study Desk

‘The one who sleeps with his sister, whether his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter is cursed.’

‘The one who sleeps with his mother-in-law is cursed.’

‘The one who secretly kills his neighbor is cursed.’

“Now if you faithfully obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow all his commands I am giving you today, the Lord your God will put you far above all the nations of the earth.

The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he swore to you, if you obey the commands of the Lord your God and walk in his ways.

The Lord will open for you his abundant storehouse, the sky, to give your land rain in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.

“But if you do not obey the Lord your God by carefully following all his commands and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overtake you:

The most sensitive and refined man among you will look grudgingly at his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children,

refusing to share with any of them his children’s flesh that he will eat because he has nothing left during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you in all your towns.

Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “You have seen with your own eyes everything the Lord did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to his entire land.

so that you may enter into the covenant of the Lord your God, which he is making with you today, so that you may enter into his oath

and so that he may establish you today as his people and he may be your God as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

The Lord will not be willing to forgive him. Instead, his anger and jealousy will burn against that person, and every curse written in this scroll will descend on him. The Lord will blot out his name under heaven,

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord demolished in his fierce anger.

The Lord uprooted them from their land in his anger, rage, and intense wrath, and threw them into another land where they are today.’

Then you will again obey him and follow all his commands I am commanding you today.

when you obey the Lord your God by keeping his commands and statutes that are written in this book of the law and return to him with all your heart and all your soul.

For I am commanding you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and multiply, and the Lord your God may bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

The Rock—his work is perfect;all his ways are just.A faithful God, without bias,he is righteous and true.

His people have acted corruptly toward him;this is their defect—they are not his childrenbut a devious and crooked generation.