You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the field.<n id="1" />

You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.<n id="1" />

Your basket and your mixing bowl will be blessed.

However, there should not be any poor among you, for the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> will surely bless<n id="2" /> you in the land that he<n id="3" /> is giving you as an inheritance,<n id="4" />

You will be blessed beyond all peoples; there will be no barrenness<n id="1" /> among you or your livestock.

You will eat your fill and then praise the <sc>Lordsc> your God because of the good land he has given you.p>

You must supply them generously<n id="1" /> from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress &#8211; as the <sc>Lordsc> your God has blessed you, you must give to them.

Your children<n id="1" /> will be blessed, as well as the produce of your soil, the offspring of your livestock, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.

<t /><p class="bodytext">This is the blessing Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.

<p class="poetry">Bless, O <sc>Lordsc>, his goods,p> <p class="poetry">and be pleased with his efforts;p> <p class="poetry">undercut the legs<n id="1" /> of any who attack him,p> <p class="poetry">and of those who hate him, so that they cannot stand.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Of Joseph he said:p> <p class="poetry">May the <sc>Lordsc> bless his landp> <p class="poetry">with the harvest produced by the sky,<n id="1" /> by the dew,p> <p class="poetry">and by the depths crouching beneath;p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Of Gad he said:p> <p class="poetry">Blessed be the one who enlarges Gad.p> <p class="poetry">Like a lioness he will dwell;p> <p class="poetry">he will tear at an arm &#8211; indeed, a scalp.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Of Asher he said:p> <p class="poetry">Asher is blessed with children,p> <p class="poetry">may he be favored by his brothersp> <p class="poetry">and may he dip his foot in olive oil.<n id="1" />p>

He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children,<n id="1" /> with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land which he promised your ancestors to give you.

Indeed, may the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of your ancestors, make you a thousand times more numerous than you are now, blessing you<n id="1" /> just as he said he would!

Both you and your families<n id="1" /> must feast there before the <sc>Lordsc> your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he<n id="2" /> has blessed you.

Then you are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks<n id="1" /> before the <sc>Lordsc> your God with the voluntary offering<n id="2" /> that you will bring, in proportion to how he<n id="3" /> has blessed you.

You must by all means<n id="1" /> return to him at sunset the item he gave you as security so that he may sleep in his outer garment and bless you for it; it will be considered a just<n id="2" /> deed by the <sc>Lordsc> your God.p>

&#8220;The following tribes<n id="1" /> must stand to bless the people on Mount Gerizim when you cross the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

The <sc>Lordsc> will decree blessing for you with respect to your barns and in everything you do &#8211; yes, he will bless you in the land he<n id="1" /> is giving you.