Blessings for Obedience
 

    ¹ If you fully obey the LORD your God and
carefully follow all His commands I give you today,
the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.
 ² All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if
you obey the LORD your God:

    ³ You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

    ⁴ The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of
your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of
your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

    ⁵ Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.

    ⁶ You will be blessed when you come in and
blessed when you go out.

    ⁷ The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up
against you will be defeated before you. They will come
 at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.

    ⁸ The LORD will send a blessing on your barns
and on everything you put your hand to.
The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.

    ⁹ The LORD will establish you as His holy people,
as He promised you on oath, if you keep the
commands of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.
 ¹⁰ Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called
by the name of the LORD, and they will fear you.
¹¹ The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity—
in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock
and the crops of your ground—in the land He swore
 to your forefathers to give you.

    ¹² The LORD will open the heavens,
the storehouse of His bounty, to send rain on your
 land in season and to bless all the work of your hands.
 You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.
 ¹³ The LORD will make
you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to
 the commands of the LORD your God that I give
you this day and carefully follow them, you will
always be at the top, never at the bottom.
¹⁴ Do not turn aside from any of the commands
 I give you today, to the right or to the left,
following other gods and serving them.