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Deuteronomy 29:20-21

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29:20 The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger 1  will rage 2  against that man; all the curses 3  written in this scroll will fall upon him 4  and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory. 5  29:21 The Lord will single him out 6  for judgment 7  from all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant written in this scroll of the law.

1 tn Heb “the wrath of the Lord and his zeal.” The expression is a hendiadys, a figure in which the second noun becomes adjectival to the first.

2 tn Heb “smoke,” or “smolder.”

3 tn Heb “the entire oath.”

4 tn Or “will lie in wait against him.”

5 tn Heb “blot out his name from under the sky.”

6 tn Heb “set him apart.”

7 tn Heb “for evil”; NAB “for doom”; NASB “for adversity”; NIV “for disaster”; NRSV “for calamity.”



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