17 and you saw their1 abominations and their idols which were among them—wood and stone and silver and gold);
18 so that there may not be among you man or woman or family or tribe, awhose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, band that there may not be among you a root bearing cbitterness or wormwood;
19 and so it may not happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall have peace, even though I1 follow the adictates of my heart’—bas though the drunkard could be included with the sober.
20 a“The Lord would not spare him; for then bthe anger of the Lord and cHis jealousy would burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book would settle on him, and the Lord dwould blot out his name from under heaven.
21 And the Lord awould separate him from all the tribes of Israel for adversity, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this Book of the bLaw,
22 so that the coming generation of your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, would say, when they asee the plagues of that land and the sicknesses which the Lord has laid on it:
23 ‘The whole land is brimstone, asalt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow there, blike the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and His wrath.’
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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