For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people — Moses warns of catastrophic consequences: if they turn from following the LORD (by refusing the conquest), the LORD will once again abandon Israel in the wilderness, and their faithlessness will destroy the entire generation. The conditional "if" allows for repentance, but the severity of the warning demonstrates the seriousness of their potential covenant violation.

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