Deuteronomy 11:28

11:28 and the curse if you pay no attention 1  to his 2  commandments and turn from the way I am setting before 3  you today to pursue 4  other gods you have not known.

Deuteronomy 23:4

23:4 for they did not meet you with food and water on the way as you came from Egypt, and furthermore, they hired 5  Balaam son of Beor of Pethor in Aram Naharaim to curse you.

Deuteronomy 28:20

Curses by Disease and Drought

28:20 “The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you 6  in everything you undertake 7  until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me. 8 

Deuteronomy 30:19

30:19 Today I invoke heaven and earth as a witness against you that I have set life and death, blessing and curse, before you. Therefore choose life so that you and your descendants may live!

1 tn Heb “do not listen to,” that is, do not obey.

2 tn Heb “the commandments of the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

3 tn Heb “am commanding” (so NASB, NRSV).

4 tn Heb “walk after”; NIV “by following”; NLT “by worshiping.” This is a violation of the first commandment, the most serious of the covenant violations (Deut 5:6-7).

5 tn Heb “hired against you.”

6 tn Heb “the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke” (NASB and NIV similar); NRSV “disaster, panic, and frustration.”

7 tn Heb “in all the stretching out of your hand.”

8 tc For the MT first person common singular suffix (“me”), the LXX reads either “Lord” (Lucian) or third person masculine singular suffix (“him”; various codices). The MT’s more difficult reading probably represents the original text.

tn Heb “the evil of your doings wherein you have forsaken me”; CEV “all because you rejected the Lord.”