Common English Bible

Deuteronomy 28:1-11 Common English Bible (CEB)

1. Now if you really obey the Lord your God’s voice, by carefully keeping all his commandments that I am giving you right now, then the Lord your God will set you high above all nations on earth.

2. All these blessings will come upon you and find you if you obey the Lord your God’s voice:

3. You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the field.

4. Your own fertility, your soil’s produce, and your livestock’s offspring—the young of both cattle and flocks—will be blessed.

5. Your basket and your kneading bowl will be blessed.

6. You will be blessed when you are out and about and blessed when you come back.

7. The Lord will defeat any enemies who attack you. They will come against you from one direction but will run for their lives away from you in seven different directions.

8. The Lord will command the blessing to be with you—in your barns and on all the work you do—and he will bless you on the land the Lord your God is giving you.

9. The Lord will establish you as his own, a holy nation, just as he swore to you, if you keep the Lord your God’s commandments and walk in his ways.

10. All the earth’s peoples will see that you are called by the Lord’s name, and they will be in awe of you.

11. The Lord will make good things abound for you—whether the fertility of your womb, your livestock’s offspring, or your fertile soil’s produce—on the very land that the Lord swore to your ancestors to give to you.