But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands. The conditional structure of the curses section: but if you will not listen. The blessings of verses 3–13 followed the if you follow of verse 3; the curses that follow begin with the but if you will not listen. The covenant structure of blessing and curse is not punitive but logical: the God who walks among the community that follows His ways cannot walk among the community that rejects those ways. The curses are the covenant's description of the consequences of that rejection.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

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