What happensPermalink
Moses details the blessings (prosperity and victory) and curses (pestilence, disease, famine, defeat, oppression, humiliation, servitude, greed, and dread) that are the consequences of the covenant.
Why it mattersPermalink
The list of curses is far longer than the list of blessings, as if Moses knew the future of Israel and their repeated and continual disobedience of God.
Key versePermalink
“And the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.”