27:15. Cursed be the man that maketh a graven and molten thing, the
abomination of the Lord, the work of the hands of artificers, and shall
put it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say:
Amen.
27:16. Cursed be he that honoureth not his father and mother: and all
the people shall say: Amen.
27:17. Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmarks: and all
the people shall say: Amen.
27:18. Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of his way: and
all the people shall say: Amen.
27:19. Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, of
the fatherless and the widow: and all the people shall say: Amen.
27:20. Cursed be he that lieth with his father’s wife, and uncovereth
his bed: and all the people shall say: Amen.
27:21. Cursed be he that lieth with any beast: and all the people shall
say: Amen.
27:22. Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his
father, or of his mother: and all the people shall say: Amen.
27:23. Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law: and all the
people shall say: Amen.
27:24. Cursed be he that secretly killeth his neighbour: and all the
people shall say: Amen.
27:25. Cursed be he that taketh gifts, to slay an innocent person: and
all the people shall say: Amen.
27:26. Cursed be he that abideth not in the words of this law, and
fulfilleth them not in work: and all the people shall say: Amen.
Deuteronomy Chapter 28
Many blessings are promised to observers of God’s commandments: and
curses threatened to transgressors.
28:1. Now if thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to do and
keep all his commandments, which I command thee this day, the Lord thy
God will make thee higher than all the nations that are on the earth.
28:2. And all these blessings shall come upon thee and overtake thee:
yet so if thou hear his precepts.
All these blessings, etc.... In the Old Testament, God promised
temporal blessings to the keepers of his law, heaven not being opened
as yet; and that gross and sensual people being more moved with present
and sensible things. But in the New Testament the goods that are
promised us are spiritual and eternal; and temporal evils are turned
into blessings.
28:3. Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed in the field.
28:4. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy
ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the droves of thy herds, and the
folds of thy sheep.
28:5. Blessed shall be thy barns and blessed thy stores.
28:6. Blessed shalt thou be coming in and going out.
28:7. The Lord shall cause thy enemies, that rise up against thee, to
fall down before thy face: one way shall they come out against thee,
and seven ways shall they flee before thee.
28:8. The Lord will send forth a blessing upon thy storehouses, and
upon all the works of thy hands: and will bless thee in the land that
thou shalt receive.
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