However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city &#8211; all its plunder &#8211; you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the <sc>Lordsc> your God has given you.

However, you may chop down any tree you know is not suitable for food,<n id="1" /> and you may use it to build siege works<n id="2" /> against the city that is making war with you until that city falls.p>

Then the elders of the city nearest to the corpse<n id="1" /> must take from the herd a heifer that has not been worked &#8211; that has never pulled with the yoke &#8211;

for they did not meet you with food and water on the way as you came from Egypt, and furthermore, they hired<n id="1" /> Balaam son of Beor of Pethor in Aram Naharaim to curse you.

You must go to the priest in office at that time and say to him, &#8220;I declare today to the <sc>Lordsc> your<n id="1" /> God that I have come into the land that the <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> promised<n id="3" /> to our ancestors<n id="4" /> to give us.&#8221;

Look down from your holy dwelling place in heaven and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us, just as you promised our ancestors &#8211; a land flowing with milk and honey.&#8221;p>

When you cross the Jordan River<n id="1" /> to the land the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you, you must erect great stones and cover<n id="2" /> them with plaster.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you<n id="1" /> in everything you undertake<n id="2" /> until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.<n id="3" />

The <sc>Lordsc> will force you and your king<n id="1" /> whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there.

They will besiege all of your villages<n id="1" /> until all of your high and fortified walls collapse &#8211; those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the <sc>Lordsc> your God has given you.

He will withhold from all of them his children&#8217;s flesh that he is eating (since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict<n id="1" /> you in your villages.

and will secretly eat her afterbirth<n id="1" /> and her newborn children<n id="2" /> (since she has nothing else),<n id="3" /> because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.p>

This is what will happen: Just as the <sc>Lordsc> delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, he<n id="1" /> will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess.

<t /><p class="bodytext"><v id="(28:69)" /><n id="1" /> These are the words of the covenant that the <sc>Lordsc> commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.<n id="2" />p>

Today he will affirm that you are his people and that he is your God,<n id="1" /> just as he promised you and as he swore by oath to your ancestors<n id="2" /> Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses<n id="1" /> I have set before you, you will reflect upon them<n id="2" /> in all the nations where the <sc>Lordsc> your God has banished you.

What<n id="1" /> I am commanding you today is to love the <sc>Lordsc> your God, to walk in his ways, and to obey his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances. Then you will live and become numerous and the <sc>Lordsc> your God will bless you in the land which you are about to possess.<n id="2" />

Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;You are about to die,<n id="1" /> and then these people will begin to prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land into which they<n id="2" /> are going. They<n id="3" /> will reject<n id="4" /> me and break my covenant that I have made with them.<n id="5" />

he said to them, &#8220;Keep in mind all the words I am solemnly proclaiming to you today; you must command your children to observe carefully all the words of this law.

for both of you<n id="1" /> rebelled against me among the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the desert of Zin when you did not show me proper respect<n id="2" /> among the Israelites.