The blessings from obeying God

28 “If you do what Yahweh our God tells you to do and faithfully obey everything that I am today commanding you to do, he will cause you to become greater than any other nation on the earth. 2 If you obey Yahweh, this is what he will do to bless you:

3 He will bless everything that you do when you are in the cities

and he will bless everything that you do when you are working in the fields.

4 He will bless you by giving you many children [IDM] and by giving you abundant crops, and plenty of cattle and sheep.

5 He will bless you by causing you to have good harvests with plenty of grain [MTY] to make bread.

6 He will bless you everywhere—when you go out of your houses and when you come into your houses.

7 Yahweh will enable you to defeat the armies of your enemies;

they will attack you from one direction, but they will run away from you in seven/many directions.

8 Yahweh will bless you by filling your barns with grain, and he will bless all the work that you do;

he will bless you in the land that he is giving to you.

9 “If you obey all the commandments that Yahweh our God has given to you and if you conduct your lives as he wants you to do, you will continue to be his people, which is what he promised.

10 “When all the people-groups on the earth will realize that you belong to [MTY] Yahweh, and they will be afraid of you.

11 “And Yahweh will cause you to prosper very much. He will give you many children [IDM], many cattle, and abundant crops in the land that he vowed to our ancestors that he would give to you.

12 “When rain is needed, Yahweh will send it from where he stores it in the sky, and he will bless all your work, with the result that you will be able to lend money to many other nations, but you will not need to borrow money from them.

13 If you faithfully obey all of the commands of Yahweh our God that I am giving you today, Yahweh will cause your nation to be a leader among the nations, not inferior to them; you will always be prosperous and never be needy/poor [IDM].

14 Yahweh will do all these things for you if you do not turn away from obeying what I am commanding you today, and if you never worship or serve other gods.