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25 “Yahweh shall cause you to be defeated before[a] your enemies; on one road you shall go against[b] them,[c] but you will flee on seven roads before[d] them,[e] and you shall become a thing of horror to all of the kingdoms of the earth. 26 And your dead bodies shall be as food for all of the birds of the heaven and to the animals of the earth, and there shall not be anyone to frighten them away.[f]

27 “Yahweh shall afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scurvy and with the skin rash that cannot be healed.[g]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:25 Literally “to the face of”
  2. Deuteronomy 28:25 Literally “to/toward”
  3. Deuteronomy 28:25 Hebrew “him”
  4. Deuteronomy 28:25 Literally “to the face of”
  5. Deuteronomy 28:25 Hebrew “him”
  6. Deuteronomy 28:26 Literally “one causing fright to them
  7. Deuteronomy 28:27 Literally “the skin rash that not it is able it to be healed”

25 The Lord will cause you to be defeated(A) before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven,(B) and you will become a thing of horror(C) to all the kingdoms on earth.(D) 26 Your carcasses will be food for all the birds(E) and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.(F) 27 The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt(G) and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.

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