<p class="poetry">with the best<n id="1" /> of the ancient mountainsp> <p class="poetry">and the harvest produced by the age-old hills;p>

These curses<n id="1" /> will be a perpetual sign and wonder with reference to you and your descendants.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The everlasting God is a refuge,p> <p class="poetry">and underneath you are his eternal arms;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he has driven out enemies before you,p> <p class="poetry">and has said, &#8220;Destroy!&#8221;p>

you shall take an awl and pierce a hole through his ear to the door.<n id="1" /> Then he will become your servant permanently (this applies to your female servant as well).

<p class="bodytext">An Ammonite or Moabite<n id="1" /> may not enter the assembly of the <sc>Lordsc>; to the tenth generation none of their descendants shall ever<n id="2" /> do so,<n id="3" />

Secret things belong to the <sc>Lordsc> our God, but those that are revealed belong to us and our descendants<n id="1" /> forever, so that we might obey all the words of this law.p>

<p class="poetry">Remember the ancient days;p> <p class="poetry">bear in mind<n id="1" /> the years of past generations.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Ask your father and he will inform you,p> <p class="poetry">your elders, and they will tell you.p>

Pay careful attention to all these things I am commanding you so that it may always go well with you and your children after you when you do what is good and right in the sight of the <sc>Lordsc> your God.p>

You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza<n id="1" /> and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the <sc>Lordsc> your God. It will be an abandoned ruin<n id="2" /> forever &#8211; it must never be rebuilt again.