The blessing

Deut 28:3- 12   Contemporary English version

³ The Lord will make your businesses and your work successful.

⁴ You will have many children. You will harvest large crops, and your herds of cattle and flocks of sheep and goats will produce many young. 

⁵ You will have plenty of bread to eat.

⁶ The Lord will make you successful in your daily work.

⁷ The Lord will help you defeat your enemies and make them scatter in all directions.

⁸ The Lord your God is giving you the land, and he will make sure you are successful in everything you do. Your harvests will be so large that your storehouses will be full.

⁹ If you follow and obey the Lord, he will make you his own special people, just as he promised. ¹⁰ Then everyone on earth will know that you belong to the Lord, and they will be afraid of you.

¹¹ The Lord will give you a lot of children and make sure that your animals give birth to many young. The Lord promised your ancestors that this land would be yours, and he will make it produce large crops for you.

¹² The Lord will open the storehouses of the skies where he keeps the rain, and he will send rain on your land at just the right times. He will make you successful in everything you do. You will have plenty of money to lend to other nations, but you won’t need to borrow any yourself.

¹³ Obey the laws and teachings that I’m giving you today, and the Lord your God will make (insert your name) a leader among the nations, and not a follower. (Insert your name) will be wealthy and powerful, not poor and weak.

¹⁴ But you must not reject any of his laws and teachings or worship other gods.