Chapter 28
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And it will be that if you hear, obeying the voice of the LORD your God, to keep and do all his commandments which I am commanding you today, the LORD your God will set you on high above all the nations of the earth.
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And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the LORD your God.
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Blessed are you in the city, and blessed are you in the field.
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Blessed be the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your livestock: the firstborn of your thousands and the young of your flock.
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Blessed be your kneading trough and your kneading bowl.
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Blessed are you in your coming in and blessed are you in your going out.
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The LORD will give your enemies who rise up against you struck down before you; they will go out against you in one way, and they will flee before you in seven ways.
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The LORD will command the blessing in your storehouses and in all the sending-forth of your hand, and he will bless you in the land that the LORD your God has given you.
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The LORD will establish you for himself as a holy people, just as he swore 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 land will see that the name of the LORD is called upon you, and they will fear you.
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And the LORD will make you abound in good in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to you.
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The LORD will open for you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its time and to bless all the work of your hands. And you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.
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And the LORD will set you as Head and not as Tail, and you will be only above, and you will not be below, for you will hear the commandments of the LORD your God which I am commanding you today to keep and to do.
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Do not turn aside from any of the words that I command you today, to the right or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.