<t /><p class="bodytext">Take note &#8211; I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:<n id="1" />

Every one of you must give as you are able,<n id="1" /> according to the blessing of the <sc>Lordsc> your God that he has given you.p>

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

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

<t /><p class="poetry">Of Naphtali he said:p> <p class="poetry">O Naphtali, overflowing with favor,p> <p class="poetry">and full of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s blessing,p> <p class="poetry">possess the west and south.p>

the blessing if you take to heart<n id="1" /> the commandments of the <sc>Lordsc> your God that I am giving you today,

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.

When the <sc>Lordsc> your God brings you into the land you are to possess, you must pronounce the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the <sc>Lordsc> your God blesses you<n id="1" /> in all your villages.<n id="2" /> Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

But the <sc>Lordsc> your God refused to listen to Balaam and changed<n id="1" /> the curse to a blessing, for the <sc>Lordsc> your God loves<n id="2" /> you.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses<n id="1" /> I have set before you, you will reflect upon them<n id="2" /> in all the nations where the <sc>Lordsc> your God has banished you.

Today I invoke heaven and earth as a witness against you that I have set life and death, blessing and curse, before you. Therefore choose life so that you and your descendants may live!