And in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

because Abraham obeyed Me and fulfilled his duty to Me, and kept My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

But his mother said to him, “Your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get the goats for me.”

Now then, my son, obey my voice, and arise, flee to Haran, to my brother Laban!

and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram.

But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and besides, I will not let Israel go.”

Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine;

Be attentive to him and obey his voice; do not be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your rebellion, since My name is in him.

But if you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

Penalties of Disobedience

‘But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments,

If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

‘Yet if you show hostility toward Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times according to your sins.

‘Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me,

And you shall put some of your authority on him, so that all the congregation of the sons of Israel will obey him.

Israel Urged to Obey God’s Law

“Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I am teaching you to perform, so that you will live and go in and take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

Obey God and Prosper

“Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which the Lord your God has commanded me to teach you, so that you may do them in the land where you are going over to take possession of it,

“If any person has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or his mother, and when they discipline him, he does not listen to them,

And they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us, he is thoughtless and given to drinking.’

So you shall obey the Lord your God, and do His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today.”

The Blessings at Mount Gerizim

“Now it shall be, if you diligently obey the Lord your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I am commanding you today, that the Lord your God will put you high above all the nations of the earth.

And all these blessings will come to you and reach you if you obey the Lord your God:

Consequences of Disobedience

“But it shall come about, if you do not obey the Lord your God, to be careful to follow all His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

“So all these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.

Then you will be left few in number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

and you return to the Lord your God and obey Him with all your heart and soul in accordance with everything that I am commanding you today, you and your sons,