and all of Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the distant sea,

When he blesses you, if the place where he chooses to locate his name is distant,

The Lord will raise up a distant nation against you, one from the other side of the earth as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand,

The generation to come -- your descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who will come from distant places -- will see the afflictions of that land and the illnesses that the Lord has brought on it.

Even if your exiles are in the most distant land, from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back.

Indeed, ask about the distant past, starting from the day God created humankind on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether there has ever been such a great thing as this, or even a rumor of it.

If the place he chooses to locate his name is too far for you, you may slaughter any of your herd and flock he has given you just as I have stipulated; you may eat them in your villages just as you wish.

the gods of the surrounding people (whether near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other).

This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.

your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse.