Deuteronomy 28:1-20

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Blessings for Obedience

28 “Now^(A) if you faithfully obey the Lord your God^(B) and are careful to follow all his commands I am giving you today,^(C) the Lord your God will put you far above all the nations of the earth.^(D) ²All these blessings will come and overtake^(E) you, because you obey the Lord your God:

³You will be blessed in the city
and blessed in the country.^(F)
⁴Your offspring^[a] will be blessed,
and your land’s produce,
and the offspring of your livestock,
including the young of your herds
and the newborn of your flocks.^(G)
⁵Your basket and kneading bowl will be blessed.
⁶You will be blessed when you come in
and blessed when you go out.^(H)

⁷“The Lord will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you from one direction but flee from you in seven directions. ⁸The Lord will grant you a blessing on your barns and on everything you do;^[b]^(I) he will bless you in the land the Lord your God is giving you.^(J) ⁹The Lord will establish you as his holy people,^(K) as he swore to you, if you obey the commands of the Lord your God and walk in his ways. ¹⁰Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you bear the Lord’s name,^(L) and they will stand in awe of you.^(M) ¹¹The Lord will make you prosper abundantly with offspring,^[c] the offspring of your livestock, and your land’s produce in the land the Lord swore to your ancestors to give you. ¹²The Lord will open for you his abundant storehouse,^(N) the sky, to give your land rain in its season and to bless all the work of your hands.^(O) You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. ¹³The Lord will make you the head and not the tail;^(P) you will only move upward and never downward if you listen to the Lord your God’s commands I am giving you today and are careful to follow them. ¹⁴Do not turn aside to the right or the left from all the things I am commanding you today,^(Q) and do not follow other gods to worship them.

Curses for Disobedience

¹⁵“But if you do not obey the Lord your God by carefully following all his commands and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overtake^(R) you:^(S)

¹⁶You will be cursed in the city
and cursed in the country.
¹⁷Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.
¹⁸Your offspring will be cursed,
and your land’s produce,
the young of your herds,
and the newborn of your flocks.
¹⁹You will be cursed when you come in
and cursed when you go out.

²⁰The Lord will send against you curses, confusion,^(T) and rebuke in everything you do until you are destroyed and quickly perish,^(U) because of the wickedness of your actions in abandoning me.^(V)

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Footnotes

28:4 Lit The fruit of your womb, also in v. 18
28:8 Lit you put your hand to, also in v. 20
28:11 Lit abundantly in the fruit of your womb

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