But I don’t think I had given Deuteronomy any thought since high school, when I was urged to read the Bible straight through as an ... All of that changed in a glance at Deuteronomy 28: the blessings ...

A curse at least in its most formal sense is the opposite of a blessing. Blessing is similar to charm. In the Bible, blessings and curses are related; the book of Deuteronomy prescribes that ...