The <sc>Lordsc> will afflict you in your knees and on your legs with painful, incurable boils &#8211; from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

The <sc>Lordsc> will raise up a distant nation against you, one from the other side of the earth<n id="1" /> as the eagle flies,<n id="2" /> a nation whose language you will not understand,

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.

There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky,<n id="1" /> because you will have disobeyed<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc> your God.

They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;This commandment I am giving<n id="1" /> you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it too remote.

It is not in heaven, as though one must say, &#8220;Who will go up to heaven to get it for us and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?&#8221;

Be strong and courageous! Do not fear or tremble before them, for the <sc>Lordsc> your God is the one who is going with you. He will not fail you or abandon you!&#8221;

<p class="poetry">He said, &#8220;I will reject them,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will see what will happen to them;p> <p class="poetry">for they are a perverse generation,p> <p class="poetry">children<n id="2" /> who show no loyalty.p>

<p class="poetry">How can one man chase a thousand of them,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and two pursue ten thousand;p> <p class="poetry">unless their Rock had delivered them up,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and the <sc>Lordsc> had handed them over?p>

You will see the land before you, but you will not enter the land that I am giving to the Israelites.&#8221;p>

Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to him, &#8220;This is the land I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, &#8216;I will give it to your descendants.&#8217;<n id="1" /> I have let you see it,<n id="2" /> but you will not cross over there.&#8221;p>

Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way,<n id="1" /> and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad,<n id="2" /> will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.

Do not be hostile toward them, because I am not giving you any of their land, not even a footprint, for I have given Mount Seir<n id="1" /> as an inheritance for Esau.

All along the way I, the <sc>Lordsc> your God,<n id="1" /> have blessed your every effort.<n id="2" /> I have<n id="3" /> been attentive to<n id="4" /> your travels through this great wasteland. These forty years I have<n id="5" /> been with you; you have lacked for nothing.&#8217;&#8221;p>

Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to me, &#8220;Do not harass Moab and provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land as your territory. This is because I have given Ar<n id="1" /> to the descendants of Lot<n id="2" /> as their possession.

But when you come close to the Ammonites, do not harass or provoke them because I am not giving you any of the Ammonites&#8217; land as your possession; I have already given it to Lot&#8217;s descendants<n id="1" /> as their possession.p>

From Aroer,<n id="1" /> which is at the edge of Wadi Arnon (it is the city in the wadi),<n id="2" /> all the way to Gilead there was not a town able to resist us &#8211; the <sc>Lordsc> our God gave them all to us.

Do not add a thing to what I command you nor subtract from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the <sc>Lordsc> your God that I am delivering to<n id="1" /> you.

I invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you<n id="1" /> today that you will surely and swiftly be removed<n id="2" /> from the very land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not last long there because you will surely be<n id="3" /> annihilated.