25 Then people would say: ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt; 26 for they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they did not know and that He had not given to them. 27 Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against this land, (A)to bring on it every curse that is written in this book. 28 And the Lord (B)uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.’

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25 And the answer will be: “It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.(A) 26 They went off and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had not given them. 27 Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written in this book.(B) 28 In furious anger and in great wrath(C) the Lord uprooted(D) them from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is now.”

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