17. Bodies eaten by fowls and beasts (v 26)
18. No help in driving them off (v 26)
19. Botch of Egypt (v 27)
20. Emerods (v 27)
21. Scab (v 27)
22. Itch (v 27)
23. No healing (v 27)
24. Madness (v 28)
25. Blindness (v 28)
26. Astonishment of heart (v 28)
27. Groping at noonday (v 29)
28. No prosperity (v 29)
29. Oppressed and spoiled forever (v 29)
30. No man will save you (v 29)
c) Twenty-six new and repeated curses of defeat, captivity, sickness,
persecution and insanity that you must watch out for when you do not
pay tithes
1. Betroth a wife and an enemy shall capture and ravish her (v 30)
2. Build a house and an enemy shall take it for his own (v 30)
3. Plant a vineyard and an enemy shall take it (v 30)
4. Your stock will be slain and eaten before your eyes (v 31)
5. Your work animals shall be taken (v 31)
6. They shall not be restored to you (v 31)
7. Your sheep will be taken away by enemies (v 31)
8. You will have no man to deliver you (v 31)
9. Your sons and daughters shall be given to other people as slaves (v 32)
10. You will long for deliverance for them which will never come (v 32)
11. You will be powerless to help them (v 32)
12. Enemies will eat your crops (v 33)
13. They shall enjoy the labour of your hands (v 33)
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