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Deuteronomy 28:1-14
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1 Now if you really obey the LORD your God's voice, by carefully keeping all his commandments that I am giving you right now, then the LORD your God will set you high above all nations on earth.
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All these blessings will come upon you and find you if you obey the LORD your God's voice:
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You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the field.
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Your own fertility, your soil's produce, and your livestock's offspring—the young of both cattle and flocks—will be blessed.
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Your basket and your kneading bowl will be blessed.
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You will be blessed when you are out and about and blessed when you come back.
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The LORD will defeat any enemies who attack you. They will come against you from one direction but will run for their lives away from you in seven different directions.
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The LORD will command the blessing to be with you—in your barns and on all the work you do—and he will bless you on the land the LORD your God is giving you.
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The LORD will establish you as his own, a holy nation, just as he swore to you, if you keep the LORD your God's commandments and walk in his ways.
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All the earth's peoples will see that you are called by the LORD's name, and they will be in awe of you.
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The LORD will make good things abound for you—whether the fertility of your womb, your livestock's offspring, or your fertile soil's produce—on the very land that the LORD swore to your ancestors to give to you.
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The LORD will open up for you his own well-stocked storehouse, the heavens, providing your land with rain at just the right time and blessing all your work. You will lend to many nations, but you won't have any need to borrow.
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The LORD will make you the head of things, not the tail; you will be at the top of things, not the bottom, as long as you obey the LORD your God's commandments that I'm commanding you right now, by carefully doing them.
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Don't deviate even a bit from any of these words that I'm commanding you right now by following other gods and serving them.
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Deuteronomy 28:1-14 Meaning and Commentary
INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 28
In this chapter Moses enlarges on the blessings and the curses which belong, the one to the doers, the other to the transgressors of the law; the blessings, De 28:1-14; the curses, some of which concern individual persons, others the whole nation and body of people, and that both under the former and present dispensations, and which had their fulfilment in their former captivities, and more especially in their present dispersion, De 28:15-68.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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