These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
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Deuteronomy 28
Tanakh 68 verses
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And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of thy , to observe to do all His commandments which I command thee this day, that thy will set thee on high above all the nations of the earth.
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And all these blessings shall come upon thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of thy .
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- 3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
- 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the young of thy flock.
- 5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.
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Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
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The will cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thee; they shall come out against thee one way, and shall flee before thee seven ways.
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- 8 The will command the with thee in thy barns, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto; and He will thee in the land which thy giveth thee.
- 9 The will establish thee for a people unto Himself, as He hath sworn unto thee; if thou shalt keep the commandments of thy , and walk in His ways.
- 10 And all the peoples of the earth shall see that the of is called upon thee; and they shall be afraid of thee.
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And will make thee over-abundant for good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, in the land which swore unto thy fathers to give thee.
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- 12 The will open unto thee His good treasure the to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to all the work of thy hand; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow.
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And will make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if thou shalt hearken unto the commandments of thy , which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them;
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and shalt not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other Elohims to them.
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- 15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of thy , to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.
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Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
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Malachi 3:9-12 Lamentations 2:11-22 Jeremiah 44:22 Joel 1:4 Deuteronomy 28:3-14 Lamentations 4:1-13 Jeremiah 26:6 Jeremiah 14:18 Jeremiah 9:11 Proverbs 3:33 Genesis 5:29 Amos 4:6-9 Lamentations 1:1 Lamentations 5:10 1 Kings 17:1 Isaiah 43:28 Isaiah 24:6-12 Genesis 8:21-22 1 Kings 17:12 Haggai 1:9-11 Malachi 2:2 Malachi 4:6 Jeremiah 14:2-5 Joel 2:3 Joel 1:8-18 Genesis 3:17-18 Haggai 2:16-17 1 Kings 17:5 Deuteronomy 28:55 Genesis 4:11-12 -
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Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.
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- 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the young of thy flock.
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Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
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- 20 The will send upon thee cursing, discomfiture, and rebuke, in all that thou puttest thy hand unto to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the evil of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken Me.
- 21 The will make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until He have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest in to possess it.
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The will smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with drought, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
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And thy that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
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The will make the rain of thy land powder and dust; from shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
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- 25 The will cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies; thou shalt go out one way against them, and shalt flee seven ways before them; and thou shalt be a horror unto all the kingdoms of the earth.
- 26 And thy carcasses shall be food unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and there shall be none to frighten them away.
- 27 The will smite thee with the boil of , and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
- 28 The will smite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of .
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And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not make thy ways prosperous; and thou shalt be only oppressed and robbed alway, and there shall be none to thee.
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- 30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her; thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein; thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not use the fruit thereof.
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Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof; thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy , and shall not be restored to thee; thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies; and thou shalt have none to thee.
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Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day; and there shall be nought in the power of thy hand.
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Deuteronomy 28:41 2 Chronicles 29:9 Joel 3:6 Isaiah 38:14 Lamentations 2:11 Micah 4:10 Amos 5:27 Jeremiah 15:7-9 Nehemiah 5:2-5 Numbers 21:29 Lamentations 4:17 Psalm 119:123 Job 11:20 Job 17:5 Deuteronomy 28:65 Jeremiah 16:2-4 Psalm 69:3 Psalm 119:82 Deuteronomy 28:18 Lamentations 5:17 Ezekiel 24:25 - 33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed away:
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so that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
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The will smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, whereof thou canst not be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the of thy head.
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The will bring thee, and thy whom thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation that thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers; and there shalt thou other Elohims, wood and stone.
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2 Kings 25:11 Jeremiah 16:13 Deuteronomy 4:28 2 Chronicles 36:20 2 Chronicles 36:6 2 Chronicles 36:17 Deuteronomy 28:64 2 Chronicles 33:11 Jeremiah 39:5-7 2 Kings 24:12-15 Jeremiah 24:8-10 2 Kings 17:4-6 2 Kings 25:6-7 Ezekiel 20:32-33 Isaiah 39:7 Ezekiel 20:39 Jeremiah 22:11-12 Jeremiah 52:8-11 Ezekiel 12:12-13 Jeremiah 22:24-27 Lamentations 4:20 - 37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither shall lead thee away.
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Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.
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Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worm shall eat them.
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Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olives shall drop off.
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Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be thine; for they shall go into captivity.
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All thy trees and the fruit of thy land shall the locust possess.
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- 43 The stranger that is in the midst of thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher; and thou shalt come down lower and lower.
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He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him; he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
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- 45 And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of thy , to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded thee.
- 46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever;
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because thou didst not thy with joyfulness, and with gladness of , by reason of the abundance of all things;
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- 48 therefore shalt thou thine enemy whom shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things; and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
- 49 The will bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as the vulture swoopeth down; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
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a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favour to the young.
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And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, until thou be destroyed; that also shall not leave thee corn, wine, or oil, the increase of thy kine, or the young of thy flock, until he have caused thee to perish.
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And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fortified walls come down, wherein thou didst trust, throughout all thy land; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which thy hath given thee.
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Matthew 22:7 Ezekiel 4:1-8 Zechariah 12:2 Zechariah 14:2 Jeremiah 52:4-7 Luke 19:43-44 2 Kings 18:13 Luke 21:20-24 Daniel 9:26 2 Kings 17:1-6 Zephaniah 1:15-16 Jeremiah 21:4-7 Jeremiah 10:18 Isaiah 1:7 Isaiah 62:8 2 Kings 24:10-11 Jeremiah 37:8 2 Kings 25:1-4 Matthew 24:15-16 Leviticus 26:25 Jeremiah 39:1-3 - 53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the of thy sons and of thy daughters whom thy hath given thee; in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall straiten thee.
- 54 The man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his children whom he hath remaining;
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so that he will not give to any of them of the of his children whom he shall eat, because he hath nothing left him; in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall straiten thee in all thy gates.
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The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter;
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and against her afterbirth that cometh out from between her feet, and against her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly; in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall straiten thee in thy gates.
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If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this that are written in this book, that thou mayest this glorious and awful Name, thy ;
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- 59 then will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
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And He will bring back upon thee all the diseases of , which thou wast in dread of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
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Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this , them will bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
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- 62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of for multitude; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of thy .
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And it shall come to pass, that as rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest in to possess it.
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- 64 And shall scatter thee among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and there thou shalt other Elohims, which thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers, even wood and stone.
- 65 And among these nations shalt thou have no repose, and there shall be no rest for the sole of thy foot; but shall give thee there a trembling , and failing of eyes, and languishing of .
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And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt night and day, and shalt have no assurance of thy life.
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In the morning thou shalt say: ‘Would it were even!’ and at even thou shalt say: ‘Would it were morning!’ for the of thy which thou shalt , and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
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And shall bring thee back into in ships, by the way whereof I said unto thee: ‘Thou shalt see it no more again’; and there ye shall sell yourselves unto your enemies for bondmen and for bondwoman, and no man shall buy you.
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