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Deuteronomy 11:26
New English Translation

Anticipation of a Blessing and Cursing Ceremony

26 Take note—I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:[a]

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  1. Deuteronomy 11:26 sn A blessing and a curse. Every extant treaty text of the late Bronze Age attests to a section known as the “blessings and curses,” the former for covenant loyalty and the latter for covenant breach. Blessings were promised rewards for obedience; curses were threatened judgments for disobedience. In the Book of Deuteronomy these are fully developed in 27:1-28:68. Here Moses adumbrates the whole by way of anticipation.
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