13. Adonai will make you the head and not the tail, and you will be only above and not below—if you listen to the mitzvot of Adonai your God that I am commanding you today, careful to do them,
14. and do not turn aside from any of the words I am commanding you today, to the right or the left, to go after other gods in order to serve them.
15. “But if you will not listen to the voice of Adonai your God, to take care to do all His mitzvot and statutes that I am commanding you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you:
16. “Cursed will you be in the city, and cursed will you be in the field.
17. “Cursed will be your basket and your kneading bowl.
18. “Cursed will be the fruit of your womb, the produce of your soil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.
19. “Cursed will you be when you come in, and cursed will you be when you go out.
20. “Adonai will send on you cursing, confusion and frustration in every undertaking of your hand that you will do—until you are destroyed and perish quickly, because of the evil of your deeds by which you have abandoned Me.
21. Adonai will make the plague cling to you, until He has put an end to you from the land that you are going in to possess.