12. If you obey these ordinances and are careful to do them, the Lord your God will faithfully keep covenant with you as he promised your ancestors.
13. He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children, with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land which he promised your ancestors to give you.
14. You will be blessed beyond all peoples; there will be no barrenness among you or your livestock.
15. The Lord will protect you from all sickness, and you will not experience any of the terrible diseases that you knew in Egypt; instead he will inflict them on all those who hate you.
16. You must destroy all the people whom the Lord your God is about to deliver over to you; you must not pity them or worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
17. If you think, “These nations are more numerous than I – how can I dispossess them?”
18. you must not fear them. You must carefully recall what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt,
19. the great judgments you saw, the signs and wonders, the strength and power by which he brought you out – thus the Lord your God will do to all the people you fear.
20. Furthermore, the Lord your God will release hornets among them until the very last ones who hide from you perish.
21. You must not tremble in their presence, for the Lord your God, who is present among you, is a great and awesome God.
22. He, the God who leads you, will expel the nations little by little. You will not be allowed to destroy them all at once lest the wild animals overrun you.
23. The Lord your God will give them over to you; he will throw them into a great panic until they are destroyed.
24. He will hand over their kings to you and you will erase their very names from memory. Nobody will be able to resist you until you destroy them.