If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, the Lord your God, then the Lord will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting. and he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. every sickness also and every affliction that is not recorded in the book of this law, the Lord will bring upon you, until you are destroyed. whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God. and as the Lord took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. and you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.