58 “If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear (A)this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD, 59 then the Lord will bring upon you and your descendants (B)extraordinary plagues—great and prolonged plagues—and serious and prolonged sicknesses. 60 Moreover He will bring back on you all (C)the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. 61 Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the Lord bring upon you until you are destroyed. 62 You (D)shall be left few in number, whereas you were (E)as the stars of heaven in multitude, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God. 63 And it shall be, that just as the Lord (F)rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the Lord (G)will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be (H)plucked[a] from off the land which you go to possess.

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  1. Deuteronomy 28:63 torn

58 “If you do not diligently observe[a] all the words of this law written in this scroll by revering this glorious and awesome name, Yahweh your God, 59 then Yahweh shall overwhelm you with your plagues and the plagues of your offspring, severe plagues and lasting illnesses, grievous and enduring. 60 And he shall bring back upon you all the diseases of Egypt concerning which you were in dread[b] because of them.[c] 61 Also any illness and any plague[d] that is not written in the scroll of this law, he shall bring them, Yahweh, upon you until you are destroyed. 62 And you shall remain only a few people[e] in place of the fact you were formerly as the stars of heaven as far as number is concerned, because you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God. 63 And then[f] as Yahweh delighted over you to make you prosperous[g] to make you numerous, so Yahweh shall delight over you to exterminate you[h] and to destroy you, and so you shall be plucked from the land that you are going there to take possession of it.

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  1. Deuteronomy 28:58 Literally “you observe to do”
  2. Deuteronomy 28:60 Literally “you dreaded”
  3. Deuteronomy 28:60 Literally “from their presence”
  4. Deuteronomy 28:61 Or “each illness and each plague”
  5. Deuteronomy 28:62 Literally “with people of few”
  6. Deuteronomy 28:63 Literally “And it will happen”
  7. Deuteronomy 28:63 Literally “to do good with you”
  8. Deuteronomy 28:63 Or “to cause you to perish”