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Dabariym 28

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28:1

The Master Frequencies of the Covenant

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
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And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym.
28:3

The Blessings of the City and the Field

Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
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Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
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Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
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Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
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The Rout of the Enemies

𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.
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𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym giveth thee.
28:9

The Establishment of the Qodesh People

𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall establish thee a holy (Qodesh) people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym, and walk in his ways.
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And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄; and they shall be afraid of thee.
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And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 swore unto thy fathers to give thee.
28:12

The Open Treasure of Heaven

𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
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And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
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And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other lo alahiym to serve them.
28:15

The Curses of the Broken Covenant

But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
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The Curses of the City and the Field

Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
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Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
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Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
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Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
28:20

The Reversal of Fortune

𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
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𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
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𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
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And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
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𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
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The Defeat Before the Enemies

𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
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And thy carcass shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.
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𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 will smite thee with the botch of Mitzrayim, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
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𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:
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And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
28:30

The Loss of the Terrestrial Inheritance

Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
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Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine donkey shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.
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Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.
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The fruit of thy land, and all thy labors, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
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So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
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𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
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The Extreme Judgments and the Exile

𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other lo alahiym, wood and stone.
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And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall lead thee.
28:38

The Collapse of the Agriculture

Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
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Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
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Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.
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Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.
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All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
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The Subversion of Authority

The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
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He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
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Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:
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And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
28:47

The Consequence of Ingratitude

Because thou servedst not 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
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Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
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The Horrors of the Siege

𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
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A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young:
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And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
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And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym hath given thee.
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And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
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So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
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So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.
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The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
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And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
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The Ultimate Fear of the Glorious Name

If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law (Turah) that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 THY ALAHIYM;
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Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
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Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Mitzrayim, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
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Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law (Turah), them will 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
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And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym.
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And it shall come to pass, that as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.
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The Global Dispersion

And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other lo alahiym, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
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And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
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And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
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In the morning thou shalt say, Would Alahiym it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would Alahiym it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
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The Return to Mitzrayim

And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall bring thee into Mitzrayim again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.