Deuteronomy 28:1-14

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Blessings for Obeying

28 You must completely ·obey [listen to the voice of] the Lord your God, and you must carefully follow all his commands I am ·giving [commanding] you today. Then the Lord your God will ·make you greater [set you higher] than any other nation on earth. ² ·Obey [Listen to the voice of] the Lord your God so that all these blessings will come and ·stay with [overtake] you:

³ You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the ·country [field].

⁴ ·Your children [^LThe fruit of your womb] will be blessed, as well as ·your crops [^Lthe fruit of your land]; your ·herds [^Lthe fruit of your livestock] will be blessed with calves and your flocks with lambs.

⁵ Your basket and your ·kitchen [^Lkneading bowl] will be blessed.

⁶ You will be blessed when you come in and when you go out.

⁷ The Lord will help you defeat the enemies that ·come [^Lrise against you] to fight you. They will attack you from one direction, but they will run from you in seven directions [^Cas at Jericho; Josh. 6–7].

⁸ The Lord your God will bless you with full barns, and he will bless ·everything you do [all your undertakings; ^Lall that is sent out from your hand]. He will bless the land he is giving you.

⁹ The Lord will make you his holy people, as he ·promised [swore; Ex. 19:6]. But you must obey his commands and ·do what he wants you to do [^Lyou must walk on his way/path]. ¹⁰ Then everyone on earth will see that you are ·the Lord’s people [^Lcalled by the name of the Lord], and they will be afraid of you. ¹¹ The Lord will make you rich: ·You will have many children, your animals will have many young, and your land will give good crops [^L…in the fruit of your womb, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your land]. It is the land that the Lord ·promised [swore to] your ·ancestors [fathers] he would give to you [Gen. 12:1–3].

¹² The Lord will open up his heavenly storehouse so that the skies send rain on your land at the right time, and he will bless everything you do. You will lend to other nations, but you will not need to borrow from them. ¹³ The Lord will make you like the head and not like the tail; you will be on top and not on bottom. But you must obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am ·giving [commanding] you today, being careful to keep them. ¹⁴ Do not ·disobey [^Lturn aside to the right or to the left from] anything I command you today. Do exactly as I command, and do not follow other gods or serve them.