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Covenant Curses – Deuteronomy E7

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The Blessing and the Curse in Deuteronomy

The words blessing and curse go off the charts in this final movement of Deuteronomy. I think it's a good example of how Israelites adopted language from the cultural context, but the words mean different things in light of who Yahweh is. To distance yourself to betray or make choices to separate from the source of all life puts you in the land of curse and death. So that's one whole piece going on here.

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