12 ^a“And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers. 13 He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you. 14 You shall be blessed above all peoples. There shall not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock. 15 And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and none of ^bthe evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you. 16 And you shall consume all the peoples that the Lord your God will give over to you. Your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a ^csnare to you.

13 “And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14 ^mhe¹ will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil. 15 And he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.

Blessings for Obedience

1 ^m“And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, ⁿthe Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and ^oovertake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. 3 Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. 5 Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. 6 Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

7 “The Lord will cause your ^penemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways. 8 The Lord will ^qcommand the blessing on you in your barns and in all that you undertake. And he will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. 9 The Lord will establish you as a people ^rholy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in his ways. 10 And all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are ^scalled by the name of the Lord, and they shall be ^tafraid of you. 11 And the Lord will make you abound in prosperity, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground, within the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. 12 The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, ^uto give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And ^vyou shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. 13 And the Lord will make you ^wthe head and not the tail, and you shall only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them, 14 and if you do not turn aside from any of the words that I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

15 “See, ^vI have set before you today life and good, death and evil. 16 ^wIf you obey the commandments of the Lord your God¹ that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules,² then you shall ^xlive and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.