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Nancy: Welcome To Immerse: The
Daily Bible Reading Experience.
Day 100 and 58
then Moses and the leaders of Israel
gave this charge to the people.
Obey all these commands
that I am giving you today.
When you cross the Jordan River
and enter the land, the Lord your
God is giving you set up some large
stones and coat them with plaster.
Write this whole body
of instruction on them.
When you cross the river to enter the
land, the Lord your God is giving you.
A land flowing with milk and honey
just as the Lord the God of your
ancestors promised you when you
cross the Jordan, set up these stones
at Mount Evil and coat them with
plaster as I am commanding you today.
Then build an altar there
to the Lord your God.
Using natural, uncut stones, you must
not shape the stones with an iron tool.
Build the altar of uncut stones
and use it to offer burnt
offerings to the Lord your God.
Also sacrifice peace offerings
on it and celebrate by feasting
there before the Lord your God.
You must clearly write all
these instructions on the
stones coated with plaster.
Then Moses and the Levitical priests
addressed all Israel as follows, O Israel.
Be quiet and listen.
Today you have become the
people of the Lord your God.
So you must obey the Lord your God
by keeping all these commands and
decrees that I am giving you today.
That same day, Moses also gave
this charge to the people.
When you cross the Jordan River,
the tribes of Simeon, Levi, Judah,
Iscar, Joseph and Benjamin must
stand on Mount Garrison to proclaim
a blessing over the people.
The tribes of Reuben Gadd, Asher
Zein, Dan and Naftali must stand
on Mount Evil to proclaim a curse.
Then the Levites will shout
to all the people of Israel.
Cursed is anyone who carves or casts
an idol and secretly sets it up.
These idols, the work of craftsmen,
are detestable to the Lord
and all the people will reply.
Amen.
Cursed is anyone who dishonor his father
or mother, and all the people will reply.
Amen cursed is anyone who steals property
from a neighbor by moving a boundary
marker and all the people will reply.
Amen cursed is anyone who leads
a blind person astray on the road
and all the people will reply.
Amen cursed as anyone who denies justice
to foreigners, orphans, or widows.
And all the people will reply.
Amen cursed as anyone who has sexual
intercourse with one of his father's
wives, for he has violated his
father, and all the people will reply.
Amen cursed as anyone who has
sexual intercourse with an animal,
and all the people will reply.
Amen.
Cursed as anyone who has sexual
intercourse with his sister, whether
she is the daughter of his father or his
mother, and all the people will reply.
Amen cursed as anyone who has sexual
intercourse with his mother-in-law,
and all the people will reply.
Amen cursed as anyone who
attacks a neighbor in secret,
and all the people will reply.
Amen.
Cursed as anyone who accepts
payment to kill an innocent person,
and all the people will reply.
Amen cursed as anyone who does not affirm
and obey the terms of these instructions,
and all the people will reply.
Amen.
If you fully obey the Lord your God
and carefully keep all his commands
that I am giving you today, the
Lord, your God will set you high
above all the nations of the world.
You will experience all these blessings.
If you obey the Lord your God.
Your towns and your
fields will be blessed.
Your children and your
crops will be blessed.
The offspring of your herds
and flocks will be blessed.
Your fruit baskets and breadboards
will be blessed wherever you go and
whatever you do, you will be blessed.
The Lord will conquer your
enemies when they attack you.
They will attack you from one direction,
but they will scatter from you in seven.
The Lord will guarantee a blessing
on everything you do and will
fill your storehouses with grain.
The Lord your God will bless you
in the land he is giving you.
If you obey the commands of the
Lord your God and walk in his ways,
the Lord will establish you as his
holy people as he swore he would do.
Then all the nations of the world will
see that you are a people claimed by the
Lord and they will stand in awe of you.
The Lord will give you prosperity in the
land he swore to your ancestors to give
you blessing you with many children,
numerous livestock and abundant crops.
The Lord will send rain the proper time
from his rich treasury in the heavens
and will bless all the work you do.
You will end to many nations, but you
will never need to borrow from them.
If you listen to these commands of
the Lord your God that I am giving
you today, and if you carefully obey
them, the Lord will make you the head
and not the tail, and you will always
be on top and never at the bottom.
You must not turn away from any of the
commands I am giving you today, nor
follow after other gods and worship them.
But if you refuse to listen to the Lord
your God and do not obey all the commands
and decrees I am giving you today, all
these curses will come and overwhelm you.
Your towns and your fields will be cursed.
Your fruit baskets and
breadboards will be cursed.
Your children and your
crops will be cursed.
The offspring of your herds and
flocks will be cursed wherever you go.
And whatever you do, you will be cursed.
The Lord himself will send
on you curses, confusion and
frustration in everything you do.
Until at last, you are
completely destroyed for
doing evil and abandoning me.
The Lord will afflict you with diseases.
Until none of you are left in the land,
you are about to enter and occupy.
The Lord will strike you with wasting
diseases, fever and inflammation,
with scorching heat and drought,
and with blight and mildew.
These disasters will
pursue you until you die.
The skies above will be as
unyielding, as bronze, and the earth
beneath will be as hard as iron.
The Lord will change the rain that
falls on your land into powder
and dust will pour down from
the sky until you are destroyed.
The Lord will cause you to
be defeated by your enemies.
You will attack your enemies
from one direction, but you
will scatter from them in seven.
You will be an object of horror
to all the kingdoms of the earth.
Your corpses will be food for all the
scavenging, birds and wild animals, and
no one will be there to chase them away.
The Lord will afflict you with the boils
of Egypt and with tumors, scurvy, and
the itch from which you cannot be cured.
The Lord will strike you with
madness, blindness, and panic.
You will grope around in broad daylight
like a blind person groping in the
darkness, but you will not find your way.
You will be oppressed and
robbed continually, and no
one will come to save you.
You will be engaged to a woman, but
another man will sleep with her.
You'll build a house, but
someone else will live in it.
You'll plant a vineyard, but
you will never enjoy its fruit.
Your ox will be butchered before
your eyes, but you will not
eat a single bite of a meat.
Your donkey will be taken
from you never to be returned.
Your sheep and goats will be
given to your enemies and no
one will be there to help you.
You will watch as your sons and
daughters are taken away as slaves.
Your heart will break for them,
but you won't be able to help them.
A foreign nation you have never
heard about will eat the crops
you worked so hard to grow.
You will suffer under constant
oppression and harsh treatment.
You will go mad because of all
the tragedy you see around you.
The Lord will cover your knees
and legs with incurable boils.
In fact, you will be
covered from head to foot.
The Lord will exile you and your king to a
nation unknown to you and your ancestors.
There in exile, you will
worship gods of wood and stone.
You will become an object of horror,
ridicule, and mockery among all the
nations to which the Lord sends you.
You will plant much, but harvest
little for locusts will eat your crops.
You will plant vineyards and
care for them, but you will not
drink the wine or eat the grapes.
For worms will destroy the vines.
You will grow olive trees
throughout your land.
But you will never use the olive oil for.
The fruit will drop before it ripens.
You will have sons and daughters,
but you will lose them for they
will be led away into captivity.
Swarms of insects will
destroy your trees and crops.
The foreigners living among you
will become stronger and stronger
while you become weaker and weaker.
They will lend money to you,
but you will not lend to them.
They will be the head
and you will be the tale.
If you refuse to listen to the Lord
your God and to obey the commands
and decrees he has given you,
all these curses will pursue and
overtake you until you are destroyed.
These horrors will serve as
a sign and warning among you
and your descendants forever.
If you do not serve the Lord your
God with joy and enthusiasm for the
abundant benefits you have received,
you will serve your enemies whom
the Lord will send against you.
You'll be left hungry, thirsty,
naked, and lacking in everything.
The Lord will put an iron yoke on
your neck, oppressing you harshly
until he has destroyed you.
The Lord will bring a distant nation
against you from the end of the earth and
it will swoop down on you like a vulture.
It is a nation whose language you do
not understand, A fierce and heartless
nation that shows no respect for
the old and no pity for the young.
Its armies will devour your livestock
and crops and you will be destroyed.
They will leave you no grain, new
wine, olive oil, calves, or lambs,
and you will starve to death.
They will attack your cities until
all the fortified walls in your land,
the walls you trusted to protect.
You are knocked down.
They will attack all
the towns and the land.
The Lord your God has given you the siege
and terrible distress of the enemy's
attack will be so severe that you will eat
the flesh of your own sons and daughters
whom the Lord your God has given you.
The most tender-hearted man among
you will have no compassion for
his own brother, his beloved
wife, and his surviving children.
He will refuse to share
with them the flash.
He is devouring the flash of one of
his own children because he has nothing
else to eat during the siege and
terrible distress that your enemy will
inflict on all your towns, the most
tender and delicate woman among you.
So delicate.
She would not so much as touch
the ground with her foot.
Will be selfish toward the husband she
loves and toward her own son or daughter.
She will hide from them the afterbirth
and the new baby she has born so that
she herself can secretly eat them.
She will have nothing else to eat during
the siege and terrible distress that your
enemy will inflict on all your towns.
If you refuse to obey all the words of
instruction that are written in this
book, and if you do not fear the glorious
and awesome name of the Lord your God.
And then the Lord will overwhelm you and
your children with indescribable plagues.
These plagues will be intense and without
relief making you miserable and unbearably
sick, he will afflict you with all
the diseases of Egypt that you feared
so much and you will have no relief.
The Lord will afflict you with
every sickness and plague.
There is even those not mentioned
in this book of instruction
until you are destroyed.
Though you become as numerous as
the stars in the sky, few of you
will be left because you would
not listen to the Lord your God.
Just as the Lord has found great
pleasure in causing you to prosper
and multiply, the Lord will
find pleasure in destroying you.
You will be torn from the land you are
about to enter and occupy for the Lord
will scatter you among all the nations
from one end of the earth to the other.
There you will worship foreign gods that
neither you nor your ancestors have known.
God's made of wood and stone
there among those nations.
You will find no peace or place to
rest, and the Lord will cause your
heart to tremble, your eyesight
to fail, and your soul to despair.
Your life will constantly
hang in the balance.
You will live night and day in fear.
Unsure if you will survive.
In the morning you will say, if only
it were night, and in the evening
you will say, if only it were morning
for you will be terrified by the
awful horrors you see around you.
Then the Lord will send you back to
Egyptian ships to a destination I promised
you would never see again There you will
offer to sell yourselves to your enemies
as slaves, but no one will buy you.
This concludes today's
Immerse Reading experience.
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