Deuteronomy 12:18

12:18 Only in the presence of the Lord your God may you eat these, in the place he ¹  chooses. This applies to you, your son, your daughter, your male and female servants, and the Levites ²  in your villages. In that place you will rejoice before the Lord your God in all the output of your labor. ³ 

Deuteronomy 15:10

15:10 You must by all means lend ⁴  to him and not be upset by doing it, ⁵  for because of this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you attempt.

Deuteronomy 23:20

23:20 You may lend with interest to a foreigner, but not to your fellow Israelite; if you keep this command the Lord your God will bless you in all you undertake in the land you are about to enter to possess.

Deuteronomy 28:20

Curses by Disease and Drought

28:20 “The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you ⁶  in everything you undertake ⁷  until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me. ⁸ 

¹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

² tn See note at Deut 12:12.

³ tn Heb “in all the sending forth of your hands.”

⁴ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “by all means.”

⁵ tc Heb “your heart must not be grieved in giving to him.” The LXX and Orig add, “you shall surely lend to him sufficient for his need,” a suggestion based on the same basic idea in v. 8. Such slavish adherence to stock phrases is without warrant in most cases, and certainly here.

⁷ tn Heb “the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke” (NASB and NIV similar); NRSV “disaster, panic, and frustration.”

⁸ tn Heb “in all the stretching out of your hand.”

⁹ tc For the MT first person common singular suffix (“me”), the LXX reads either “Lord” (Lucian) or third person masculine singular suffix (“him”; various codices). The MT’s more difficult reading probably represents the original text.