“And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:”
And if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant. The escalating language of covenant violation: reject my decrees, abhor my laws, fail to carry out my commands, violate my covenant. The progression from rejection to abhorrence to failure to carry out to violation communicates the depth of the disobedience that the following curses address. The curses are not the response to minor failures but to the comprehensive rejection of the covenant relationship.
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