“Then all of you approached me and said, ‘Let’s send men ahead of us, so that they may explore the land for us and bring us back a report about the route we should go up and the cities we will come to.’

They took some of the fruit from the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us back a report: ‘The land the Lord our God is giving us is good.’

But you are to turn back and head for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea.’

“Then we turned back and headed for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea, as the Lord had told me, and we traveled around the hill country of Seir for many days.

But He directly pays back and destroys those who hate Him. He will not hesitate to directly pay back the one who hates Him.

“So I went back down the mountain, while it was blazing with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

and I went back down the mountain and placed the tablets in the ark I had made. And they have remained there, as the Lord commanded me.”

and the pig, though it has hooves, it does not chew the cud—
it is unclean for you.

You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses.

However, he must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire many horses, for the Lord has told you, ‘You are never to go back that way again.’

“When you reap the harvest in your field, and you forget a sheaf in the field, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

“You must not have two different weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.

The Lord will also afflict you with every sickness and plague not recorded in the book of this law, until you are destroyed.

The Lord will take you back in ships to Egypt by a route that I said you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

and single him out for harm from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.

Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against this land, and He brought every curse written in this book on it.

Even if your exiles are at the ends of the earth, He will gather you and bring you back from there.

when you obey the Lord your God by keeping His commands and statutes that are written in this book of the law and return to Him with all your heart and all your soul.

“Take this book of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God so that it may remain there as a witness against you.