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"And if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments which I command you this day, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
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And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the LORD your God.
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Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.
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Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your beasts, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
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Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.
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Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
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"The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you; they shall come out against you one way, and flee before you seven ways.
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The LORD will command the blessing upon you in your barns, and in all that you undertake; and he will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
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The LORD will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and walk in his ways.
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And all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of you.
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And the LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, within the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
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The LORD will open to you his good treasury the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
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And the LORD will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall tend upward only, and not downward; if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day, being careful to do them,
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and if you do not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
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"But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.
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Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.
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Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.
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Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
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Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
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"The LORD will send upon you curses, confusion, and frustration, in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly, on account of the evil of your doings, because you have forsaken me.
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The LORD will make the pestilence cleave to you until he has consumed you off the land which you are entering to take possession of it.
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The LORD will smite you with consumption, and with fever, inflammation, and fiery heat, and with drought, and with blasting, and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.
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And the heavens over your head shall be brass, and the earth under you shall be iron.
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The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down upon you until you are destroyed.
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"The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them; and you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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And your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air, and for the beasts of the earth; and there shall be no one to frighten them away.
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The LORD will smite you with the boils of Egypt, and with the ulcers and the scurvy and the itch, of which you cannot be healed.
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The LORD will smite you with madness and blindness and confusion of mind;
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and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways; and you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.
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You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her; you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, and you shall not use the fruit of it.
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Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it; your ass shall be violently taken away before your face, and shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and there shall be no one to help you.
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Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all the day; and it shall not be in the power of your hand to prevent it.
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A nation which you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually;
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so that you shall be driven mad by the sight which your eyes shall see.
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The LORD will smite you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
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"The LORD will bring you, and your king whom you set over you, to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known; and there you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone.
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And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where the LORD will lead you away.
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You shall carry much seed into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.
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You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes; for the worm shall eat them.
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You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off.
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You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.