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46 These curses[a] will serve as a sign and wonder for you and your descendants[b] as long as you live.”[c]

Servitude and Bondage

47 “Because you didn’t serve the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly,[d] despite the abundance of everything you have, 48 you’ll serve your enemies whom the Lord your God will send against you. You will serve in famine and in drought,[e] in nakedness, and in lack of everything. They’ll[f] set a yoke of iron upon your neck until they[g] have exterminated you.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:46 Heb. lacks curses
  2. Deuteronomy 28:46 Lit. seed
  3. Deuteronomy 28:46 Lit. until eternity
  4. Deuteronomy 28:47 Lit. and with gladness of heart
  5. Deuteronomy 28:48 Or in hunger and thirst
  6. Deuteronomy 28:48 Lit. he
  7. Deuteronomy 28:48 Lit. he

46 They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.(A) 47 Because you did not serve(B) the Lord your God joyfully and gladly(C) in the time of prosperity, 48 therefore in hunger and thirst,(D) in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke(E) on your neck(F) until he has destroyed you.

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