These people, as well as the Anakites, are also considered Rephaites;<n id="1" /> the Moabites call them Emites.

<p class="poetry">Surely he loves the people;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">all your holy ones<n id="2" /> are in your power.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">And they sit<n id="4" /> at your feet,p> <p class="poetry">each receiving<n id="5" /> your words.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Of Gad he said:p> <p class="poetry">Blessed be the one who enlarges Gad.p> <p class="poetry">Like a lioness he will dwell;p> <p class="poetry">he will tear at an arm &#8211; indeed, a scalp.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">(That also is considered to be a land of the Rephaites.<n id="1" /> The Rephaites lived there originally; the Ammonites call them Zamzummites.<n id="2" />

for the <sc>Lordsc> your God, who is present among you, is a jealous God and his anger will erupt against you and remove you from the land.<n id="1" />p>

for they will turn your sons away from me to worship other gods. Then the anger of the <sc>Lordsc> will erupt against you and he will quickly destroy you.

That is why the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses<n id="1" /> written in this scroll.

<p class="poetry">Israel lives in safety,p> <p class="poetry">the fountain of Jacob is quite secure,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">in a land of grain and new wine;p> <p class="poetry">indeed, its heavens<n id="2" /> rain down dew.<n id="3" />p>

Then the anger of the <sc>Lordsc> will erupt<n id="1" /> against you and he will close up the sky<n id="2" /> so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed<n id="3" /> from the good land that the Lord<n id="4" /> is about to give you.

The <sc>Lordsc> will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger<n id="1" /> will rage<n id="2" /> against that man; all the curses<n id="3" /> written in this scroll will fall upon him<n id="4" /> and the <sc>Lordsc> will obliterate his name from memory.<n id="5" />