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If you will only obey the Lord your God, by diligently observing all his commandments that I am commanding you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth;

all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the Lord your God:

The Lord will command the blessing upon you in your barns, and in all that you undertake; he will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in his ways.

The Lord will make you the head, and not the tail; you shall be only at the top, and not at the bottom—if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I am commanding you today, by diligently observing them,

But if you will not obey the Lord your God by diligently observing all his commandments and decrees, which I am commanding you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you:

All these curses shall come upon you, pursuing and overtaking you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God, by observing the commandments and the decrees that he commanded you.

Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and with gladness of heart for the abundance of everything,

It shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout your land; it shall besiege you in all your towns throughout the land that the Lord your God has given you.

In the desperate straits to which the enemy siege reduces you, you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your own sons and daughters whom the Lord your God has given you.

If you do not diligently observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, fearing this glorious and awesome name, the Lord your God,

Although once you were as numerous as the stars in heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

you have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink—so that you may know that I am the Lord your God.

You stand assembled today, all of you, before the Lord your God—the leaders of your tribes, your elders, and your officials, all the men of Israel,

to enter into the covenant of the Lord your God, sworn by an oath, which the Lord your God is making with you today;

in order that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he promised you and as he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

I am making this covenant, sworn by an oath, not only with you who stand here with us today before the Lord our God,

It may be that there is among you a man or woman, or a family or tribe, whose heart is already turning away from the Lord our God to serve the gods of those nations. It may be that there is among you a root sprouting poisonous and bitter growth.

They will conclude, "It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord , the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and to our children forever, to observe all the words of this law.