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26 Look! I’m about to grant you a blessing and a curse— 27 a blessing if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I’m giving you today, 28 or a curse if you don’t obey the commands of the Lord your God, by turning from the way that I’m commanding you today and following other gods whom you have not known.”

Declaration of the Blessings and Curses

29 “When the Lord brings you to the land that you are about to enter to inherit, repeat the blessings on Mount Gerizim and the curses on Mount Ebal. 30 They’re across the Jordan River to the west in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah opposite Gilgal near the Oak of Moreh, aren’t they? 31 For you are about to cross the Jordan River to go in and possess the land that the Lord your God is about to give you to inherit and live in. 32 Be careful to obey all the statutes and ordinances that I’m placing before you today.”

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26 “See, I am setting before you[a] today[b] a blessing and a curse: 27 the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God that I am commanding you today,[c] 28 and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but rather you turn from the way that I am commanding you today[d] to go after other gods that you have not known.

29 “And it will happen that when Yahweh your God has brought you to the land that you are going to,[e] to take possession of it, then[f] you shall pronounce the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. 30 (Are they not beyond the Jordan, toward the west,[g] in the land of the Canaanites living in the Jordan Valley,[h] opposite Gilgal beside the terebinth[i] of Moreh?) 31 For you are now about to cross the Jordan to go to take possession of the land that Yahweh, your God, is giving to you, and you will take possession of it and live in it, 32 and you must diligently observe[j] all the rules and the regulations that I am setting before you[k] today.”[l]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 11:26 Literally “to the face of you”
  2. Deuteronomy 11:26 Literally “the day”
  3. Deuteronomy 11:27 Literally “the day”
  4. Deuteronomy 11:28 Literally “the day”
  5. Deuteronomy 11:29 Literally “the land that you are going there”
  6. Deuteronomy 11:29 Hebrew “and”
  7. Deuteronomy 11:30 Literally “after the way of the descent of the sun”
  8. Deuteronomy 11:30 Hebrew “in the Arabah”
  9. Deuteronomy 11:30 Or “oaks”
  10. Deuteronomy 11:32 Literally “observe to do”
  11. Deuteronomy 11:32 Literally “before your face”
  12. Deuteronomy 11:32 Literally “the day”