^{18 Ref} lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

^{19 Ref} 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, to destroy the moist with the dry.

^{20 Ref} Jehovah will not pardon him, but then the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven.

^{21 Ref} And Jehovah will set him apart 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.

^{22 Ref} 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 Jehovah hath made it sick;

^{23 Ref} `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 Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

^{24 Ref} even all the nations shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

^{25 Ref} Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,

^{26 Ref} and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods that they knew not, and that he had not given unto them:

^{27 Ref} therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book;

^{28 Ref} and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day.