Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 28:9-14 
Context28:9 The Lord will designate you as his holy people just as he promised you, if you keep his commandments 1 and obey him. 2 28:10 Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you belong to the Lord, 3 and they will respect you. 28:11 The Lord will greatly multiply your children, 4 the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he 5 promised your ancestors 6 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; 7 you will lend to many nations but you will not borrow from any. 28:13 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 8 commandments which I am urging 9 you today to be careful to do. 28:14 But you must not turn away from all the commandments I am giving 10 you today, to either the right or left, nor pursue other gods and worship 11 them.
1 tn Heb “the commandments of the
2 tn Heb “and walk in his ways” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).
3 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).
4 tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “will give you a lot of children.”
5 tn Heb “the
6 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 36, 64).
7 tn Heb “all the work of your hands.”
8 tn Heb “the
9 tn Heb “commanding” (so NRSV); NASB “which I charge you today.”
10 tn Heb “from all the words which I am commanding.”
11 tn Heb “in order to serve.”
