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18 Your children[a] will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks. 19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.[b]

Curses by Disease and Drought

20 “The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you[c] in everything you undertake[d] until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:18 tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).
  2. Deuteronomy 28:19 sn See note on the similar expression in v. 6.
  3. Deuteronomy 28:20 tn Heb “the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke” (NASB and NIV similar); NRSV “disaster, panic, and frustration.”
  4. Deuteronomy 28:20 tn Heb “in all the stretching out of your hand.”
  5. Deuteronomy 28:20 tc For the MT first person common singular suffix (“me”), the LXX reads either “Lord” (Lucian) or third person masculine singular suffix (“him”; various codices). The MT’s more difficult reading probably represents the original text.tn Heb “the evil of your doings wherein you have forsaken me”; CEV “all because you rejected the Lord.”