7. “The Lord will help you defeat your enemies who come to fight against you. Your enemies will come against you one way, but they will run away from you seven different ways!
8. “The Lord will bless you and fill your barns. He will bless everything you do. The Lord your God will bless you in the land that he is giving you.
9. If you follow the Lord your God and obey his commands, he will do what he promised. The Lord will make you his own special people.
10. Then all the people in that land will see that you are called to be the Lord’S people, and they will be afraid of you.
11. “And the Lord will give you many good things. He will give you many children. He will give your cows many calves. He will give you a good harvest in the land that the Lord promised your ancestors to give you.
12. The Lord will open his storehouse where he keeps his rich blessings. He will send rain at the right time for your land. He will bless everything you do. You will have money to lend to many nations. And you will not need to borrow anything from them.
13. The Lord will make you be like the head, not the tail. You will be on top, not on the bottom. This will happen if you listen to the commands of the Lord your God that I tell you today. You must carefully obey these commands.
14. You must not turn away from any of the teachings that I give you today. You must not turn away to the right or to the left. You must not follow other gods to serve them.
15. “But if you don’t listen to what the Lord your God tells you—if you don’t obey all his commands and laws that I tell you today—then all these bad things will happen to you:
16. “The Lord will curse you in the city and in the field.
17. He will curse you with empty baskets and pans.
18. He will curse you, and you will not have many children. He will curse your land, and you will not have good crops. He will curse your animals, and they will not have many babies. He will curse your calves and lambs.
19. He will curse you at all times in everything you do.