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Deuteronomy 29:24
“even all the nations shall say, "Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”
Verse in context — Deuteronomy 29
The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick;
[and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
even all the nations shall say, "Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?
Then men shall say, "Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,
and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they didn't know, and that he had not given to them:
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Moses’ final speeches, reminding Israel of God’s law before entering the Promised Land.
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