Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 28:59-62 
Context28:59 then the Lord will increase your punishments and those of your descendants – great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses. 28:60 He will infect you with all the diseases of Egypt 1 that you dreaded, and they will persistently afflict you. 2 28:61 Moreover, the Lord will bring upon you every kind of sickness and plague not mentioned in this scroll of commandments, 3 until you have perished. 28:62 There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky, 4 because you will have disobeyed 5 the Lord your God.
1 sn These are the plagues the
2 tn Heb “will cling to you” (so NIV); NLT “will claim you.”
3 tn The Hebrew term תּוֹרָה (torah) can refer either (1) to the whole Pentateuch or, more likely, (2) to the book of Deuteronomy or even (3) only to this curse section of the covenant text. “Scroll” better reflects the actual document, since “book” conveys the notion of a bound book with pages to the modern English reader. Cf. KJV, NASB, NRSV “the book of this law”; NIV, NLT “this Book of the Law”; TEV “this book of God’s laws and teachings.”
4 tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
5 tn Heb “have not listened to the voice of.”
