A CURSE — not the participle arur, cursed, but a noun from the same root: the curse as a thing sent. ⭐ Read across the archived text, the noun stands in five verses of the Hebrew Bible: Deuteronomy 28:20, where Jehovah sends the curse, the panic and the rebuke into everything you put your hand to; Proverbs 3:33, the curse of Jehovah is on the house of the wicked; Proverbs 28:27, the man who hides his eyes from the poor will have many curses; and Malachi 2:2 and 3:9 (none yet on these pages), the first of which sends it with this verse’s own verb — I will send the curse among you. The same three consonants without the vowels spell the lights of Genesis 1:14, which is why the count is read and not matched. The KJV reads ‘cursing’, the NIV ‘curses’, the NWT 1984 ‘the curse’; the RV 1909 and RV60 «la maldición». → first discussed at Deut 28:20