24 And the Lord ^acommanded us to do all these statutes, to ^bfear the Lord our God, for our ^cgood always, that he might ^dpreserve us alive, as it is at this day.

  16 And he said: Thus saith the Lord God—^aCursed shall be the land, yea, this land, unto every nation, kindred, tongue, and people, unto destruction, which do ^bwickedly, when they are fully ripe; and as I have said so shall it be; for this is the cursing and the ^cblessing of God upon the land, for the Lord cannot look upon sin with the ^dleast degree of allowance.