1. I am the Lord your God! So don't make or worship any sort of idols or images.
2. Respect the Sabbath and honour the place where I am worshipped, because I am the Lord.
3. Faithfully obey my laws,
4. and I will send rain to make your crops grow and your trees produce fruit.
5. Your harvest of grain and grapes will be so abundant, that you won't know what to do with it all. You will eat and be satisfied, and you will live in safety.
6. I will bless your country with peace, and you will rest without fear. I will wipe out the dangerous animals and protect you from enemy attacks.
7. You will chase and destroy your enemies,
8. even if there are only five of you and a hundred of them, or only a hundred of you and ten thousand of them.
9. I will treat you with such kindness that your nation will grow strong, and I will also keep my promises to you.
14-15. If you disobey me and my laws, and if you break our agreement,
34-35. While you are prisoners in foreign lands, your own land will enjoy years of rest and refreshment, as it should have done each seventh year when you lived there.
36-37. In the land of your enemies, you will tremble at the rustle of a leaf, as though it were a sword. And you will become so weak that you will stumble and fall over each other, even when no one is chasing you.
40-41. Then suppose you realize that I turned against you and brought you to the land of your enemies because both you and your ancestors had stubbornly sinned against me. If you humbly confess what you have done and start living right,