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18 Lest there be among you man or woman, or family or tribe, whom his heart turn this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of these nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poverty and wormwood;
19 And it was in his hearing the words of this oath, and he blessed himself in his heart, saying, Peace shall be to me, if in the hardness of my heart, I shall go to add satiating to thirst:
20 Jehovah shall not be willing to forgive him, for then the anger of Jehovah shall smoke, and his jealousy against that man, and every curse written in this book lay upon him, and Jehovah wiped out his name from under the heavens.
21 And Jehovah separated him for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in the book of this law:
22 And said, Another generation of your sons who shall rise up from after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a land afar off, and they saw the blows of that land, and the sicknesses which Jehovah made sick in it;
23 Pitch and burning salt, all its land; it shall not be sown, and it shall not sprout, and no green herb shall come up upon it, as the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his wrath:
24 And all the nations said, For what did Jehovah thus to this land? what the heat of this great anger?
25 And they said, Because they left the covenant of Jehovah the God of their fathers, which he made with them; in his bringing them forth from the land of Egypt
26 And they will go and serve other gods, and will worship to them gods which they knew them not, and a portion not to them.
27 And the anger of Jehovah will kindle against this land, to bring upon it all the curses written in this book.
28 And Jehovah will tear them up from their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great anger, and will send them to another land as this day.