Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 28:4-12 
Context28:4 Your children 1 will be blessed, as well as the produce of your soil, the offspring of your livestock, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks. 28:5 Your basket and your mixing bowl will be blessed. 28:6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out. 2 28:7 The Lord will cause your enemies who attack 3 you to be struck down before you; they will attack you from one direction 4 but flee from you in seven different directions. 28:8 The Lord will decree blessing for you with respect to your barns and in everything you do – yes, he will bless you in the land he 5 is giving you. 28:9 The Lord will designate you as his holy people just as he promised you, if you keep his commandments 6 and obey him. 7 28:10 Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you belong to the Lord, 8 and they will respect you. 28:11 The Lord will greatly multiply your children, 9 the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he 10 promised your ancestors 11 he would give you. 28:12 The Lord will open for you his good treasure house, the heavens, to give you rain for the land in its season and to bless all you do; 12 you will lend to many nations but you will not borrow from any.
1 tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).
2 sn Come in…go out. To “come in” and “go out” is a figure of speech (merism) indicating all of life and its activities.
3 tn Heb “who rise up against” (so NIV).
4 tn Heb “way” (also later in this verse and in v. 25).
5 tn Heb “the
6 tn Heb “the commandments of the
7 tn Heb “and walk in his ways” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).
8 tn Heb “the name of the Lord is called over you.” The Hebrew idiom indicates ownership; see 2 Sam 12:28; Isa 4:1, as well as BDB 896 s.v. קָרָא Niph. 2.d.(4).
9 tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “will give you a lot of children.”
10 tn Heb “the
11 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 36, 64).
12 tn Heb “all the work of your hands.”
