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Deuteronomy 29:18

World English Bible

lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;

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Deuteronomy 29:18 in other translations

lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

Deuteronomy 29:18 · American Standard Version

Deuteronomy 29:18 in context

  1. 16(for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the middle of the nations through which you passed;
  2. 17and you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were among them);
  3. 18lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;
  4. 19and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.
  5. 20Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.