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20 “Yahweh will send upon you[a] the curse,[b] the panic,[c] and the threat[d] in everything that you undertake,[e] until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly[f] because of[g] the evil of your deeds in that[h] you have forsaken me. 21 Yahweh will cause the plague to cling to you until it consumes you[i] from the land that you are going to,[j] to take possession of it. 22 Yahweh will afflict you with the wasting diseases and with the fever and with the inflammation and with the scorching heat and with the sword[k] and with the blight and with the mildew, and they shall pursue you until you perish.[l]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:20 Others translate as a wish: “may Yahweh send upon you …”
  2. Deuteronomy 28:20 These words are translated variously, e.g., “starvation,” “thirst,” “rebuke/dysentery” (NEB) or “curses,” “confusion,” “frustration” (NLT)
  3. Deuteronomy 28:20 Or “confusion”
  4. Deuteronomy 28:20 Or “rebuke”
  5. Deuteronomy 28:20 Literally “in all the sending out of your hand that you do”
  6. Deuteronomy 28:20 Literally “until your to be destroyed and until your to perish quickly”
  7. Deuteronomy 28:20 Literally “from the face of the evil of your deeds”
  8. Deuteronomy 28:20 Literally “which”
  9. Deuteronomy 28:21 Literally “it to consume to”
  10. Deuteronomy 28:21 Hebrew “to there”
  11. Deuteronomy 28:22 Others translate “drought” (NLT, NEB)
  12. Deuteronomy 28:22 Literally “until your/you to perish”