Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the Lord bring upon you until you are destroyed.
Parallel translations
- WEB Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, Yahweh will bring them on you, until you are destroyed.
- KJV Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
- BSB The LORD will also bring upon you every sickness and plague not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.
- NASB Also every sickness and every plague, which are not written in the book of this Law, the Lord will bring on you until you are destroyed.
- NLT The Lord will afflict you with every sickness and plague there is, even those not mentioned in this Book of Instruction, until you are destroyed.
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Quick answer
Beyond the written curses, God can bring afflictions unnamed in the law until the people are destroyed. God's judgments are not limited to a fixed list.
Overview
Moses stresses that the catalog of curses is representative, not exhaustive; God's hand of judgment extends even to plagues 'not written in the book.' This guards against any false security that one might dodge specific named consequences. It magnifies both the comprehensiveness of divine justice and the wonder of the gospel, in which every curse is exhausted at the cross.
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- Deut 4:25–26When you shall father children, and children’s children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight, to provoke him to anger;
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Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).
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