13. The Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always end up at the top and not at the bottom, if you obey his commandments which I am urging you today to be careful to do.
14. But you must not turn away from all the commandments I am giving you today, to either the right or left, nor pursue other gods and worship them.
15. “But if you ignore the Lord your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force:
16. You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field.
17. Your basket and your mixing bowl will be cursed.
18. Your children will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.
19. You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
20. “The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.
21. The Lord will plague you with deadly diseases until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess.