All these blessings will come to you in abundance<n id="1" /> if you obey the <sc>Lordsc> your God:

Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you belong to the <sc>Lord,sc><n id="1" /> and they will respect you.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Because you have not served the <sc>Lordsc> your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have,

He will infect you with all the diseases of Egypt<n id="1" /> that you dreaded, and they will persistently afflict you.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Moses went<n id="1" /> and spoke these words<n id="2" /> to all Israel.

Then Moses recited the words of this song from start to finish in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel.p>

<p class="poetry">Surely he loves the people;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">all your holy ones<n id="2" /> are in your power.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">And they sit<n id="4" /> at your feet,p> <p class="poetry">each receiving<n id="5" /> your words.p>

and he displayed great power<n id="1" /> and awesome might in view of all Israel.<n id="2" />p>

We captured all his cities at that time &#8211; there was not a town we did not take from them &#8211; sixty cities, all the region of Argob,<n id="1" /> the dominion of Og in Bashan.

When you look up<n id="1" /> to the sky<n id="2" /> and see the sun, moon, and stars &#8211; the whole heavenly creation<n id="3" /> &#8211; you must not be seduced to worship and serve them,<n id="4" /> for the <sc>Lordsc> your God has assigned<n id="5" /> them to all the people<n id="6" /> of the world.<n id="7" />

You go near so that you can hear everything the <sc>Lordsc> our God is saying and then you can tell us whatever he<n id="1" /> says to you; then we will pay attention and do it.&#8221;

If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey<n id="1" /> all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.

and that you may so revere the <sc>Lordsc> your God that you will keep all his statutes and commandments<n id="1" /> that I am giving<n id="2" /> you &#8211; you, your children, and your grandchildren &#8211; all your lives, to prolong your days.

or what he did to Dathan and Abiram,<n id="1" /> sons of Eliab the Reubenite,<n id="2" /> when the earth opened its mouth in the middle of the Israelite camp<n id="3" /> and swallowed them, their families,<n id="4" /> their tents, and all the property they brought with them.<n id="5" />

You must by all means destroy<n id="1" /> all the places where the nations you are about to dispossess worship their gods &#8211; on the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree.<n id="2" />

You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza<n id="1" /> and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the <sc>Lordsc> your God. It will be an abandoned ruin<n id="2" /> forever &#8211; it must never be rebuilt again.

It must be with him constantly and he must read it as long as he lives, so that he may learn to revere the <sc>Lordsc> his God and observe all the words of this law and these statutes and carry them out.

and then you are careful to observe all these commandments<n id="1" /> I am giving<n id="2" /> you today (namely, to love the <sc>Lordsc> your God and to always walk in his ways), then you must add three more cities<n id="3" /> to these three.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;If you indeed<n id="1" /> obey the <sc>Lordsc> your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving<n id="2" /> you today, the <sc>Lordsc> your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;But if you ignore<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force:<n id="2" />