¹⁵Obey the Lord your God, and faithfully follow all his commands and laws that I am giving you today. If you don’t, all these curses will come to you and stay close to you:

¹⁶You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

¹⁷The grain you harvest and the bread you bake will be cursed.

¹⁸You will be cursed. You will have few children. Your land will have few crops. Your cattle will be cursed with few calves, and your flocks will have few lambs and kids.

¹⁹You will be cursed when you come and cursed when you go.

²⁰The Lord will send you curses, panic, and frustration in everything you do until you’re destroyed and quickly disappear for the evil you will do by abandoning the Lord. ²¹The Lord will send one plague after another on you until he wipes you out of the land you’re about to enter and take possession of. ²²The Lord will strike you with disease, fever, and inflammation; heat waves,^adrought,^bscorching winds,^cand ruined crops. They will pursue you until you die. ²³The sky above will look like bronze, and the ground below will be as hard as iron. ²⁴The Lord will send dust storms and sandstorms on you from the sky until you’re destroyed.

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Footnotes

a 28:22 Or “uncontrolled fever.”
b 28:22 Latin; Masoretic Text “warfare.”
c 28:22 Or “blight.”