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there will be a blessing, if you obey the commands of the Lord your God I am giving you today,

This will occur if you obey the Lord your God, keeping all his commands I am giving you today, doing what is right in the sight of the Lord your God.

if only you obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow every one of these commands I am giving you today.

For there will never cease to be poor people in the land; that is why I am commanding you, ‘Open your hand willingly to your poor and needy brother in your land.’

Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you; that is why I am giving you this command today.

This is why I am commanding you to set apart three cities for yourselves.

provided you keep every one of these commands I am giving you today and follow them, loving the Lord your God and walking in his ways at all times—you are to add three more cities to these three.

Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you from there. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.

Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.

Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, “Keep every command I am giving you today.

When you have crossed the Jordan, you are to set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I am commanding you today, and you are to cover them with plaster.

Obey the Lord your God and follow his commands and statutes I am giving you today.”

“Now if you faithfully obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow all his commands I am giving you today, the Lord your God will put you far above all the nations of the earth.

The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; 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.

Do not turn aside to the right or the left from all the things I am commanding you today, and do not follow other gods to worship them.

“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 you:

you did not eat food or drink wine or beer—so that you might know that I am the Lord your God.

I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you,

and you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and all your soul by doing everything I am commanding you today,

Then you will again obey him and follow all his commands I am commanding you today.