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29.17 those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying: 'I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart—that the watered be swept away with the dry'; the will not be willing to pardon him, but then the anger of the  and His jealousy shall be kindled against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and the  shall blot out his name from under heaven; and the  shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law. And the generation to come, your children that shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses wherewith the hath made it sick; and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the  overthrew in His anger, and in His wrath; even all the nations shall say 'Wherefore hath the  done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?' then men shall say: 'Because they forsook the covenant of the, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them forth out of the land of Egypt; and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods that they knew not, and that He had not allotted unto them; therefore the anger of the was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book; and the  rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day'.—The secret things belong unto the  our God; but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt bethink thyself among all the nations, whither the thy God hath driven thee, and shalt return unto the  thy God, and hearken to His voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul; that then the  thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the peoples, whither the  thy God hath scattered thee. If any of thine that are dispersed be in the uttermost parts of heaven, from thence will the thy God gather thee, and from thence will He fetch thee. And the thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and He will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. And the thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the  thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. And the thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, that persecuted thee. And thou shalt return and hearken to the voice of the, and do all His commandments which