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You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God, and do his mitzvot and his statutes, which I command you this day.

Cursed be he who sets light by his father or his mother. All the people shall say, Amein.

Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. All the people shall say, Amein.

Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt. All the people shall say, Amein.

Cursed be he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. All the people shall say, Amein.

Cursed be he who lies with his mother-in-law. All the people shall say, Amein.

Cursed be he who strikes his neighbor in secret. All the people shall say, Amein.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all his mitzvot which I command you this day, who the LORD your God will set you on high above all the nations of the eretz:

The LORD will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you; if you shall keep the mitzvot of the LORD your God, and walk in his ways.

The LORD will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend to many nations, and you shall not borrow.

But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all his mitzvot and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come on you, and overtake you.

All these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you didn't listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his mitzvot and his statutes which he commanded you:

The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;

so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates.

Moshe called to all Yisra'el, and said to them, You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Mitzrayim to Par`oh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;

that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, and into his oath, which the LORD your God makes with you this day;

and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have shalom, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.

The LORD will not pardon him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under the sky.

[and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sedom and `Amorah, Admah and Tzevoyim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

and shall return to the LORD your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;