You must not worship or serve them, for I, the <sc>Lordsc> your God, am a jealous God. I punish<n id="1" /> the sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons for the sin of the fathers who reject<n id="2" /> me,<n id="3" />

From heaven he spoke to you in order to teach you, and on earth he showed you his great fire from which you also heard his words.<n id="1" />

Today realize and carefully consider that the <sc>Lordsc> is God in heaven above and on earth below &#8211; there is no other!

Fix these words of mine into your mind and being,<n id="1" /> and tie them as a reminder on your hands and let them be symbols<n id="2" /> on your forehead.

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.

Then the <sc>Lordsc> your God will put all these curses on your enemies, on those who hate you and persecute you.

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> will judge his people,p> <p class="poetry">and will change his plans concerning<n id="1" /> his servants;p> <p class="poetry">when he sees that their power has disappeared,p> <p class="poetry">and that no one is left, whether confined or set free.p>

You must by all means destroy<n id="1" /> all the places where the nations you are about to dispossess worship their gods &#8211; on the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree.<n id="2" />

You must do what you are instructed, and the verdict they pronounce to you, without fail. Do not deviate right or left from what they tell you.

Then the Levitical priests<n id="1" /> will approach (for the <sc>Lordsc> your God has chosen them to serve him and to pronounce blessings in his name,<n id="2" /> and to decide<n id="3" /> every judicial verdict<n id="4" />)