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Deuteronomy 28:19-21
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Deuteronomy 28:19-21
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19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.[a]
Curses by Disease and Drought
20 “The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you[b] in everything you undertake[c] until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.[d] 21 The Lord will plague you with deadly diseases[e] until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess.
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- Deuteronomy 28:19 sn See note on the similar expression in v. 6.
- Deuteronomy 28:20 tn Heb “the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke” (NASB and NIV similar); NRSV “disaster, panic, and frustration.”
- Deuteronomy 28:20 tn Heb “in all the stretching out of your hand.”
- Deuteronomy 28:20 tc For the MT first person common singular suffix (“me”), the LXX reads either “Lord” (Lucian) or third person masculine singular suffix (“him”; various codices). The MT’s more difficult reading probably represents the original text.tn Heb “the evil of your doings wherein you have forsaken me”; CEV “all because you rejected the Lord.”
- Deuteronomy 28:21 tn Heb “will cause pestilence to cling to you.”
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