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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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