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61 Also the Lord will bring on you every sickness and every plague which is not written in this book of this law, until you are destroyed. 62 Because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, you who were as numerous as the stars of heaven shall be left few in number. 63 It shall come about that just as the Lord delighted over you to make you prosper and multiply, so the Lord will delight over you to bring you to ruin and destruction; and you will be [a]uprooted [violently] from the land which you are entering to possess.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:63 There have been many “uprootings” from the land, notably those by Nebuchadnezzar (605, 587, 586 b.c.), Titus (a.d. 70), and later by the Emperor Hadrian (a.d. 135) who issued a proclamation forbidding Jews to live in Judea, or even to approach its border. In his attempt to eradicate Judaism, among other things, Hadrian renamed the Roman province of Syria Palaestina (after the Philistines).

61 The Lord will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law,(A) until you are destroyed.(B) 62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky(C) will be left but few(D) in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God. 63 Just as it pleased(E) the Lord to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please(F) him to ruin and destroy you.(G) You will be uprooted(H) from the land you are entering to possess.

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