1-2. Today I am giving you the laws and teachings of the Lord your God. Always obey them, and the Lord will make Israel the most famous and important nation on earth, and he will bless you in many ways.
3. The Lord will make your businesses and your farms successful.
4. You will have many children. You will harvest large crops, and your herds of cattle and flocks of sheep and goats will produce many young.
5. You will have plenty of bread to eat.
21-23. The Lord will send terrible diseases to attack you, and you will never be well again. You will suffer with burning fever and swelling and pain until you die somewhere in the land that you captured.The Lord will make the sky overhead seem like a bronze roof that keeps out the rain, and the ground under your feet will become as hard as iron. Your crops will be scorched by the hot east wind or ruined by mildew.