lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Deuteronomy 29:18 in context
Deuteronomy 29:15–21
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but with those who stand here with us today before the LORD our God, and also with those who are not here with us today
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(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;
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and you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which were among them);
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lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from the LORD 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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and 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.
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The LORD will not pardon him, but then the LORD’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 the LORD will blot out his name from under the sky.
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The LORD will set him apart for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.
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