²¹ The Lord will set him apart from all the tribes of Israel for destruction,^[a] according to the curses of the covenant that were written in this Book of the Law.”

A Reminder of Sodom and Gomorrah

²² “Then the generation to come—your descendants after you and the foreigners who come from afar—will see plagues and illnesses infecting the land that the Lord will inflict on it. ²³ The whole land will be covered^[b] with salt pits and burning sulfur, with nothing planted, nothing sprouting, and producing no vegetation—overthrown like Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, when the Lord overthrew them in his raging fury.