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The Curses From Mount Ebal

14 The Levites will testify to every person of Israel with a loud voice:

15 Cursed is the man that makes a carved image or a molten metal image, an abomination to the Lord, a work of the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up secretly.
    All the people will say, “Amen!”
16 Cursed is anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.
    All the people will say, “Amen!”
17 Cursed is anyone who moves the boundary marker of his neighbor.
    All the people will say, “Amen!”
18 Cursed is anyone who leads astray a blind man on his way.
    All the people will say, “Amen!”
19 Cursed is anyone who perverts the justice due to an alien who resides among you, or justice due to the fatherless or a widow.
    All the people will say, “Amen!”
20 Cursed is any man who lies down with his father’s wife, because he has removed the skirt that is reserved for his father.
    All the people will say, “Amen!”
21 Cursed is anyone who lies down with any animal.
    All the people will say, “Amen!”
22 Cursed is any man who lies down with his sister, either the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.
    All the people will say, “Amen!”
23 Cursed is any man who lies down with his mother-in-law.
    All the people will say, “Amen!”
24 Cursed is anyone who strikes down his neighbor secretly.
    All the people will say, “Amen!”
25 Cursed is anyone who takes payment to strike down an innocent person.
    All the people will say, “Amen!”
26 Cursed is anyone who does not uphold the words of this law by doing them.
    All the people will say, “Amen!”

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