10. Then everyone on earth will see that you are the Lord’s people. They will be afraid of you.
11. The Lord will make you rich. You will have many children. Your cattle will have many calves. Your land will give good crops. It is the land that the Lord promised your ancestors he would give to you.
12. The Lord will open up his storehouse. The skies will send rain on your land at the right time. And he will bless everything you do. You will lend to other nations. But you will not need to borrow from them.
13. The Lord will make you like the head and not like the tail. You will be on top and not on bottom. But you must obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today. Be careful to keep them.
14. Do not disobey anything I command you today. Do exactly as I command. Do not follow other gods or serve them.
15. But you might not obey the Lord your God. You might not carefully follow all his commands and laws I am giving you today. Then all these curses will come upon you and stay:
16. You will be cursed in the city. You will be cursed in the country.
17. Your basket and your kitchen will be cursed.
18. Your children will be cursed. Your crops will be cursed. The calves of your cattle will be cursed. And the lambs of your flocks will be cursed.
19. You will be cursed when you go in and when you go out.
20. The Lord will send you curses, confusion and punishment in everything you do. You will be destroyed. You will suddenly be ruined. You did wrong when you left him.
21. The Lord will give you terrible diseases. He will destroy you from the land you are going to take.
22. The Lord will punish you with disease, fever, swelling, heat, no rain, plant diseases and mildew. Then you will die.
23. The sky above will look like bronze. And the ground below will be like iron.
24. The Lord will turn the rain into dust and sand. It will fall from the skies until you are destroyed.
25. The Lord will let your enemies defeat you. You will attack them from one direction. But you will run from them in seven directions. And you will become a thing of horror among all the kingdoms on earth.
26. Your dead bodies will be food for all the birds and wild animals. There will be no one to scare them away.
27. The Lord will punish you with boils like those the Egyptians had. You will have bad growths, sores and itches that can’t be cured.