Deuteronomy 28
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Deuteronomy 28:5-17

5Your basket and your mixing bowl will be blessed.

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

7The Lord will cause your enemies who attack you to be struck down before you; they will attack you from one direction but flee from you in seven different directions.

8The Lord will decree blessing for you with respect to your barns and in everything you do – yes, he will bless you in the land he is giving you.

9The Lord will designate you as his holy people just as he promised you, if you keep his commandments and obey him.

10Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you belong to the Lord, and they will respect you.

11The Lord will greatly multiply your children, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he promised your ancestors he would give you.

12The Lord will open for you his good treasure house, the heavens, to give you rain for the land in its season and to bless all you do; you will lend to many nations but you will not borrow from any.

13The Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always end up at the top and not at the bottom, if you obey his commandments which I am urging you today to be careful to do.

14But you must not turn away from all the commandments I am giving you today, to either the right or left, nor pursue other gods and worship them.

15“But if you ignore the Lord your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force:

16You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field.

17Your basket and your mixing bowl will be cursed.

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