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Covenant Curses – Deuteronomy E7

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The Long Lists of Covenant Curse in Deuteronomy 28

Moses and the framer of author Deuteronomy is adopting this kind of cultural format as the medium of Israel's covenant relationship with Yahweh. May there be no sound of heart or liar among the people only crying and lamentation. May our pod become a ruined heap for the gazelle and the fox and the desert creatures. And so when we come to, in the next conversation,. the long lists of covenant curses in Deuteronomy 28, long, long list. It feels excessive. But it does help explain why they have the literary form and the intensity they do. Because it's imitating.

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