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Deuteronomy 27:14-26 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

The people of the Levi tribe will speak each curse in a loud voice, then the rest of the people will agree to that curse by saying, “Amen!” Here are the curses:We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who makes an idol or worships idols, even secretly. The Lord is disgusted with idols.We ask the Lord to put a curse on all who do not show respect for their father and mother.We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who moves the rocks that mark boundaries.We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who tells blind people to go the wrong way.We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who keeps the poor from getting justice, whether these poor are foreigners, widows, or orphans.We ask the Lord to put a curse on any man who sleeps with his father's wife; that man has shown no respect for his father's marriage.We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who has sex with an animal.We ask the Lord to put a curse on any man who sleeps with his sister or his half-sister or his mother-in-law.We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who commits murder, even when there are no witnesses to the crime.We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who accepts money to murder an innocent victim.We ask the Lord to put a curse on anyone who refuses to obey his laws.And so, to each of these curses, the people will answer, “Amen!”

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