¹⁶ And the Lord said to Moses: “You are going to rest with your ancestors,^(A) and these people will soon prostitute^(B) themselves to the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake^(C) me and break the covenant I made with them.

²⁰ The Lord will send on you curses,^(A) confusion and rebuke^(B) in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin^(C) because of the evil^(D) you have done in forsaking him.^[a]