5. “Blessed will be your basket and your kneading bowl.
6. “Blessed will you be when you come in, and blessed will you be when you go out.
7. “Adonai will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck down before you. They will come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.
8. Adonai will command the blessing on you in your barns and in every undertaking of your hand, and He will bless you in the land Adonai your God is giving you.
9. Adonai will establish you as a holy people for Himself, just as He swore to you—if you keep the mitzvot of Adonai your God and walk in His ways.
10. Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of Adonai and they will stand in awe of you.
11. Adonai will make you overflow in prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil—on the land Adonai swore to your fathers to give you.
12. Adonai will open for you His good storehouse—the heavens—to give rain for your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.
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.
22. Adonai will strike you with weakness, fever, inflammation, fiery heat, the sword, blight and mildew—they will pursue you until you perish.