⁶ Since the Lord, your God, will bless you as he promised, you will lend to many nations, and borrow from none;^(A) you will rule over many nations, and none will rule over you.

Chapter 28

Blessings for Obedience. ¹ Now,^(A)(B) if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord, your God, carefully observing all his commandments which I give you today, the Lord, your God, will set you high above all the nations of the earth.^{(C) 2} All these blessings will come upon you and overwhelm you when you obey the voice of the Lord, your God:

Victory and Prosperity. ⁷ The Lord will beat down before you the enemies that rise up against you; they will come out against you from one direction, and flee before you in seven.^{[b](G) 8} The Lord will affirm the blessing upon you, on your barns and on all your undertakings; he will bless you in the land that the Lord, your God, is giving you. ⁹ The Lord will establish you as a holy people, as he swore to you,^(H) if you keep the commandments of the Lord, your God, and walk in his ways. ¹⁰ All the peoples of the earth will see that the name of the Lord is proclaimed over you,^[c] and they will be afraid of you.^{(I) 11} The Lord will generously increase the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil, upon the land which the Lord swore to your ancestors he would give you.^{(J) 12} The Lord will open up for you his rich storehouse, the heavens, to give your land rain in due season and to bless all the works of your hands. You will lend to many nations but borrow from none.^{(K) 13} The Lord will make you the head not the tail, the top not the bottom, if you obey the commandments of the Lord, your God, which I am giving you today, observing them carefully, ¹⁴ not turning aside, either to the right or to the left, from any of the words which I am giving you today, following other gods and serving them.^(L)

Chapter 30

Compassion for the Repentant. ^1 [a](A)When all these things, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, come upon you,^(B) and you take them to heart in any of the nations where the Lord, your God, has dispersed you, ^2 (C)and return to the Lord, your God, obeying his voice, according to all that I am commanding you today, you and your children, with your whole heart and your whole being, ³ the Lord, your God, will restore your fortunes and will have compassion on you; he will again gather you from all the peoples where the Lord, your God, has scattered you. ⁴ Though you may have been dispersed to the farthest corner of the heavens, even from there will the Lord, your God, gather you; even from there will he bring you back.^{(D) 5} The Lord, your God, will then bring you into the land your ancestors once possessed, that you may possess it; and he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors.^{(E) 6} The Lord, your God, will circumcise your hearts^[b] and the hearts of your descendants,^(F) so that you will love the Lord, your God, with your whole heart and your whole being, in order that you may live. ⁷ The Lord, your God, will put all those curses on your enemies and the foes who pursued you.^{(G) 8} You, however, shall again obey the voice of the Lord and observe all his commandments which I am giving you today. ⁹ Then the Lord, your God, will generously increase your undertakings, the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil;^(H) for the Lord, your God, will again take delight in your prosperity, just as he took delight in your ancestors’, ¹⁰ because you will obey the voice of the Lord, your God, keeping the commandments and statutes that are written in this book of the law, when you return to the Lord, your God, with your whole heart and your whole being.

²² If you obey him and carry out all I tell you, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.

²³ My angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites; and I will wipe them out. ²⁴ Therefore, you shall not bow down to their gods and serve them, nor shall you act as they do; rather, you must demolish them and smash their sacred stones.^{[a](A) 25} You shall serve the Lord, your God; then he will bless your food and drink, and I will remove sickness from your midst; ²⁶ no woman in your land will be barren or miscarry; and I will give you a full span of life.

²⁷ I will have the terror of me precede you, so that I will throw into panic every nation you reach.^(B) I will make all your enemies turn from you in flight, ²⁸ and ahead of you I will send hornets^[b] to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way. ²⁹ But I will not drive them all out before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals multiply against you. ³⁰ Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have grown numerous enough to take possession of the land. ^31 (C)I will set your boundaries from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines,^[c] and from the wilderness to the Euphrates; all who dwell in this land I will hand over to you and you shall drive them out before you. ³² You shall not make a covenant with them or their gods. ³³ They must not live in your land. For if you serve their gods, this will become a snare to you.^(D)

^3 [a](A)If you live in accordance with my statutes and are careful to observe my commandments, ⁴ I will give you your rains in due season, so that the land will yield its crops, and the trees their fruit;^{(B) 5} your threshing will last till vintage time, and your vintage till the time for sowing, and you will eat your fill of food, and live securely in your land.^{(C) 6} I will establish peace in the land, and you will lie down to rest with no one to cause you anxiety. I will rid the country of ravenous beasts, and no sword shall sweep across your land. ⁷ You will rout your enemies, and they shall fall before your sword. ⁸ Five of you will put a hundred of your foes to flight, and a hundred of you will put to flight ten thousand, till your enemies fall before your sword.^{(D) 9} I will look with favor upon you, and make you fruitful and numerous,^(E) as I carry out my covenant with you. ¹⁰ You shall eat the oldest stored harvest, and have to discard it to make room for the new.^{(F) 11 (G)}I will set my tabernacle in your midst, and will not loathe you. ¹² Ever present in your midst, I will be your God, and you will be my people; ¹³ I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be their slaves no more, breaking the bars of your yoke and making you walk erect.^(H)

The Punishment of Disobedience.^[b]