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"There shall not be for your use in your bag two kinds of stone weights, a large one and a small one.

There shall not be in your house for your use two kinds of measures.

Rather a full and honest weight shall be for your use; there shall be for you a full and honest measure, so that your days on the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you may be long.

For detestable to Yahweh your God is everyone who is doing such things, everyone who is acting dishonestly.

Yahweh you have declared today to be for you as your God, and to go in his ways and to observe his rules and his commandments and his regulations and to listen to his voice.

And Yahweh has declared you today to be for him as a people, a treasured possession, as he promised to you, and that you are to observe all his commandments,

and that he then will set you high above all the nations that he has made for his praise and for fame and for honor and for you to be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he promised."

And then on the day that you cross the Jordan to the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you, then you shall set up for yourselves large stones, and you shall paint them with lime,

And you shall build an altar there for Yahweh your God, an altar of stone, but you shall not use an iron tool to shape the stones.

Then Moses and the priests, the Levites, spoke to all Israel, saying, "Be silent and hear, Israel, for this day you have become a people for Yahweh your God.

And these shall stand on Mount Ebal for delivering the curse: Reuben, Gad and Asher and Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali.

‘Cursed be the man that makes a divine image or a cast image, which is a detestable thing for Yahweh, the work of the hand of a skilled craftsman, and then sets it in a hiding place.' And all the people shall respond, ‘Amen.'

Yahweh will establish you for himself as a holy people as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of Yahweh your God and you walk in his ways.

Yahweh shall open for you his rich storehouse, even the heavens, to give the rain for your land in its time and to bless all of the work of your hand, and you will lend to many nations; you will not borrow from them.

And your dead bodies shall be as food for all of the birds of the heaven and to the animals of the earth, and there shall not be anyone to frighten them away.

Your sons and your daughters shall be given to other people, and you will be looking on longingly for them all day, but you will be powerless to do anything.

A people that you do not know shall consume the harvest of your land and all your labor, and you will be only oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.

"You shall carry out much seed to the field, but you shall gather little produce, for the locust shall devour it.

You shall plant vineyards and you shall dress them, but you shall not drink wine and you shall not gather grapes, for the worm shall eat it.

There shall be olive trees for you in all of your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself, for your olives shall drop off.