¹⁸ so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the [false] gods of these nations; so that there will not be among you a root [of idolatry] bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood (bitterness). ¹⁹ It will happen that when he (a renegade) hears the words of this oath, and he ^[a]imagines himself as blessed, saying, ‘I will have peace and safety even though I walk within the stubbornness of my heart [rejecting God and His law], in order that the watered land dwindles away along with the dry [destroying everything],’ ²⁰ the Lord will not be willing to forgive him, but then the anger of the Lord and His ^[b]jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse which is written in this book will rest on him; the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven.