The curses pronounced.

BEFORE CHRIST 1451.

b ch. 33. 10.
Josh. 8. 33.
Dan. 9. 11.
Exod. 20. 4,

23. & 34. 17.

Lev. 19. 4. & 26. 1.

ch.4.16,

& 8.
Isai. 44. 9.

Hos. 13. 2.

23.

See Numb. 5.

22.

Jer. 11. 5.

1 Cor. 14. 16.

Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

14 ¶ And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the Work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

16 'Cursed be he that setteth light Exod. 20. 12. by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

& 21. 17.

Lev. 19.3. ch. 21. 18. mi ch. 19. 14.

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17 Cursed be he that removeth Prov. 22. 28. his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

a Lev. 19. 14.

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18 Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen. 19 Cursed be he that perverteth ch. 10. 18. & the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

• Exod. 22. 21, 22.

24. 17.

Mal. 3. 5.

20. 11.

ch. 22. 30.

P Lev. 18. 8. & 20 Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Lev. 18. 23. & 20. 15.

Lev. 18. 9. & 20. 17.

Lev. 18. 17. & 20. 14.

Exod. 20. 13. & 21. 12, 14. Lev. 24. 17. Numb. 35.

31.

ch. 19. 11.

u Exod. 23. 7,

8.

16. 19.

21 Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.

22 Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

23 Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.

24 Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. ch. 10. 17. & And all the people shall say, Amen. 26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Ezek. 22. 12.

ch. 28. 15.

Ps. 119. 21.

Jer. 11. 3.

Gal. 3. 10.

11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD Sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

m Numb. 6. 27. 2 Chron. 7. 14.

Isai. 63. 19.
Dan. 9. 18,
19.

n ch. 11. 25. 。 ver. 4. ch. 30. 9. Prov. 10. 22. 4 Or, for good. 5 Heb. belly.

12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven Pto Lev. 26. 4. give the rain unto thy land in his

P ch. 11. 14.

a ch. 14. 29.

season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend ch. 15. 6.

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The curses

BEFORE CHRIST 1451.

Isai. 9. 14, 15.

tch. 5. 32. & 11. 16.

" Lev. 26. 14. Lam. 2. 17.

Mal. 2. 2.

unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

13 And the LORD shall make thee "the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:

14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

15 But it shall come to pass, " if ¶ Dan. 9.11, 13. thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, 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:

* ver. 2. y ver. 3, &c.

z Mal. 2. 2.

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Zech. 14. 13.

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16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.

18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in 1 Sam. 14.20. all that thou settest thine hand unto 2 for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy thou wouldst doings, whereby thou hast forsaken

b Ps. 80. 16. Isai. 30. 17. & 51. 20. & 66. 15.

2 Heb. which

for disobedience.

BEFORE CHRIST 1451.

f Lev. 26. 19.

23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. 24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed. 25 The LORD shall cause thee to ver. 7. be smitten before thine enemies : thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into Jer. 15. 4. & all the kingdoms of the earth.

30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: P thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.

31 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.

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" Job 5. 14. Isai. 59. 10.

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Job 31. 10.

Jer. 8. 10.

Job 31. 8.

Jer. 12. 13.
Amos 5. 11.
Mic. 6. 15.
Zeph. 1. 13.

4 ch. 20. 6.

3 Heb. profane,

or, use it as common meat: as ch. 20. 6.

32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail Ps. 119. 82. with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.

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33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou

8 ver. 51. Lev. 26. 16. Jer. 5. 17.

The curses

for disobedience.

34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

35 The LORD shall "smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.

36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

37 And thou shalt become an Jer. 24. 9. & astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.

25.9.
Zech. 8. 13.

a Ps. 44. 14.

b Mic. 6. 15. Hag. 1. 6.

© Joel 1.4.

2 Heb. they shall not be thine.

d Lam. 1. 5.

Or, possess.

ver. 12.

- ver. 13.

Lam. 1. 5.

5 ver. 15.

41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.

42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.

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43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. 44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: the shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:

50 A nation of fierce countenance, 。 which shall not regard the persons Heb. strong of the old, nor shew favour to the young:

of face.

Prov. 7. 13.
Eccles. 8. 1.
Dan. 8. 23.

• 2 Chron. 36. 17.

Isai. 47. 6.

P ver. 33. Isai. 1. 7. & 62.8.

51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee. 52 And he shall besiege thee in 2 Kings 25. 1, all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

2 Heb. after birth.

Gen. 49. 10.

Exod. 6. 3.

Dan. 9. 12.

ach. 7. 15.

in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.

56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, "her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

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57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.

58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; 59 Then the LORD 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.

60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.

61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the 3 Heb. cause to LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

ascend.

b ch. 4. 27.

c ch. 10. 22. Neh. 9. 23.

d ch. 30. 9. Jer. 32. 41. e Prov. 1. 26. Isai. 1. 24.

Lev. 26. 33. ch. 4. 27, 28. Neh. 1. 8. Jer. 16. 13.

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62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.

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63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.

64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the

for disobedience.

All are presented

BEFORE CHRIST 1451.

ch. 1. 3. & 8.

2.

fch. 8. 4.

8 See Exod. 16. 12.

ch. 8. 3.

to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

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5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.

before the Lord.

18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day ch. 11. 16. from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations;

" Acts 8. 23. Hebr. 12. 15.

7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:

8 And we took their land, and Numb. 32.33. gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh. 9Keep therefore the words of 1 Kings 2. 3. this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.

*ch. 4. 6.

Josh. 1. 7.

Josh. 1. 7.

10 ¶ Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,

11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, m See Josh. 9. from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:

21, 23, 27.

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12 That thou shouldest 2 enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and "into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day: 13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, Pas he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 14 Neither with you only do I Hebr. 8. 7, 8. make this covenant and this oath; 15 But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD See Acts 2.39. Our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:

9. Jer. 22. 8, 9.