‘Cursed is the one who misleads a blind person on the road.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

The Lord will plague you with deadly diseases until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess.

Then he will not exalt himself above his fellow citizens or turn from the commandments to the right or left, and he and his descendants will enjoy many years ruling over his kingdom in Israel.

his body must not remain all night on the tree; instead you must make certain you bury him that same day, for the one who is left exposed on a tree is cursed by God. You must not defile your land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

the one who was constantly going before you to find places for you to set up camp. He appeared by fire at night and cloud by day, to show you the way you ought to go.

He will hand over their kings to you and you will erase their very names from memory. Nobody will be able to resist you until you destroy them.

and the sign or wonder should come to pass concerning what he said to you, namely, “Let us follow other gods” – gods whom you have not previously known – “and let us serve them.”

For the Lord your God will bless you just as he has promised; you will lend to many nations but will not borrow from any, and you will rule over many nations but they will not rule over you.

There must never be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, anyone who practices divination, an omen reader, a soothsayer, a sorcerer,

discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, and stay in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations with her and become her husband and she your wife.

You shall do the same to his donkey, his clothes, or anything else your neighbor has lost and you have found; you must not refuse to get involved.

You may lend with interest to a foreigner, but not to your fellow Israelite; if you keep this command the Lord your God will bless you in all you undertake in the land you are about to enter to possess.

These are the ones you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,

Therefore, I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.

You must not seek peace and prosperity for them through all the ages to come.

If you refrain from making a vow, it will not be sinful.

Your eyes have seen the great judgments, those signs and mighty wonders.

I will increase their disasters, I will use up my arrows on them.

For our enemies’ rock is not like our Rock, as even our enemies concede.

Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan so you can dispossess the nations there, people greater and stronger than you who live in large cities with extremely high fortifications.