3 c“If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, 4 then dI will give you your rains in their season, and ethe land shall yield its increase, and fthe trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5 gYour threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely. 6 I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And I will hremove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land. 7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8 iFive of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9 I will jturn to you and make you kfruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you. 10 lYou shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new. 11 mI will make my ndwelling1 among you, and my soul shall not abhor you. 12 And I will owalk among you and pwill be your God, and you shall be my people. 13 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. And I have qbroken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.
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.
