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All these good things will come upon you if you will obey the Lord your God.

The Lord will send good upon you in your store-houses and in all your work. He will bring good to you in the land the Lord your God gives you.

The Lord will make you a holy nation to Himself, as He promised you. But you must keep the Laws of the Lord your God and walk in His ways.

The Lord will make you the head and not the tail. If you listen to the Laws of the Lord your God which I tell you today and be careful to obey them, you will only be above and not below.

"If you will not obey the Lord your God or be careful to do all His Laws which I tell you today, all these curses will come upon you.

All these curses will come upon you. They will follow you and come upon you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping all the Laws He gave you.

Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a glad heart because of all He has given you,

Your towns will be taken over by its armies until your high strong walls that you have trusted in come down everywhere in your land. Its armies will take over all your towns everywhere in the land the Lord your God has given you.

During this time and because of the trouble caused by those who hate you, you will eat your own children, the flesh of your sons and daughters whom the Lord your God has given you.

"If you are not careful to obey all the words of the Law which are written in this book, to fear this honored name of the Lord your God,

You will have been as many as the stars of heaven but there will be few of you left, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

You did not eat bread, or drink wine or strong drink, so you might know that I am the Lord your God.

"Today you all stand before the Lord your God, you, your rulers, your families, your leaders, all the men of Israel,

You are here to take part in the agreement with the Lord your God, and in His promise which the Lord your God is making with you today.

So today He will make you His people. He will be your God, just as He told you and as He promised your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

I am making them with those who stand here with us today before the Lord our God, and with those who are not here with us today.

Be careful not to have any man or woman or family or group among you whose heart turns away from the Lord our God today to go and worship the gods of those nations. Do not let there be a root among you giving poison fruit and bad-tasting plants.

Then men will say, ‘It is because they did not keep the agreement of the Lord, the God of their fathers, 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 things that are made known belong to us and to our children forever, so we may obey all the words of this Law.

"When all these things have come upon you, the good things and the curses which I have told you about, you will remember them in all the nations where the Lord your God has sent you.