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BEGINNINGS
28:5-22
Your fruit baskets and breadboards
will be blessed.
Wherever you go and whatever you do,
you will be blessed.
“The Lord will conquer your enemies when they attack you. They will
attack you from one direction, but they will scatter from you in seven!
“The Lord will guarantee a blessing on everything you do and will fill
your storehouses with grain. The Lord your God will bless you in the
land he is giving you.
“If you obey the commands of the Lord your God and walk in his ways,
the Lord will establish you as his holy people as he swore he would do.
Then all the nations of the world will see that you are a people claimed by
the Lord, and they will stand in awe of you.
“The Lord will give you prosperity in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you, blessing you with many children, numerous livestock, and
abundant crops. The Lord will send rain at the proper time from his rich
treasury in the heavens and will bless all the work you do. You will lend to
many nations, but you will never need to borrow from them. If you listen
to these commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today, and
if you carefully obey them, the Lord will make you the head and not the
tail, and you will always be on top and never at the bottom. You must not
turn away from any of the commands I am giving you today, nor follow
after other gods and worship them.
“But if you refuse to listen to the Lord your God and do not obey all the
commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come
and overwhelm you:
Your towns and your fields
will be cursed.
Your fruit baskets and breadboards
will be cursed.
Your children and your crops
will be cursed.
The offspring of your herds and flocks
will be cursed.
Wherever you go and whatever you do,
you will be cursed.
“The Lord himself will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration
in everything you do, until at last you are completely destroyed for doing
evil and abandoning me. The Lord will afflict you with diseases until
none of you are left in the land you are about to enter and occupy. The
