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19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.[a]

Curses by Disease and Drought

20 “The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you[b] in everything you undertake[c] until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.[d] 21 The Lord will plague you with deadly diseases[e] until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess.

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  1. Deuteronomy 28:19 sn See note on the similar expression in v. 6.
  2. Deuteronomy 28:20 tn Heb “the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke” (NASB and NIV similar); NRSV “disaster, panic, and frustration.”
  3. Deuteronomy 28:20 tn Heb “in all the stretching out of your hand.”
  4. Deuteronomy 28:20 tc For the MT first person common singular suffix (“me”), the LXX reads either “Lord” (Lucian) or third person masculine singular suffix (“him”; various codices). The MT’s more difficult reading probably represents the original text.tn Heb “the evil of your doings wherein you have forsaken me”; CEV “all because you rejected the Lord.”
  5. Deuteronomy 28:21 tn Heb “will cause pestilence to cling to you.”

19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.(A)

20 The Lord will send on you curses,(B) confusion and rebuke(C) in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin(D) because of the evil(E) you have done in forsaking him.[a] 21 The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.(F)

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  1. Deuteronomy 28:20 Hebrew me