then the <sc>Lordsc> will increase your punishments and those of your descendants &#8211; great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses.

The judge<n id="1" /> may sentence him to forty blows,<n id="2" /> but no more. If he is struck with more than these, you might view your fellow Israelite<n id="3" /> with contempt.p>

Moreover, the <sc>Lordsc> will bring upon you every kind of sickness and plague not mentioned in this scroll of commandments,<n id="1" /> until you have perished.

The generation to come &#8211; your descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who will come from distant places &#8211; will see<n id="1" /> the afflictions of that land and the illnesses that the <sc>Lordsc> has brought on it.