The Wilderness Years

`Cursed is he who is lying with his father's wife, for he hath uncovered his father's skirt, --and all the people have said, Amen.

`Cursed is he who is lying with any beast, --and all the people have said, Amen.

`Cursed is he who is lying with his sister, daughter of his father, or daughter of his mother, --and all the people have said, Amen.

`Cursed is he who is lying with his mother-in-law, --and all the people have said, Amen.

`Cursed is he who is smiting his neighbour in secret, --and all the people have said, Amen.

`Cursed is he who is taking a bribe to smite a person, innocent blood, --and all the people have said, Amen.

`Cursed is he who doth not establish the words of this law, to do them, --and all the people have said, Amen.

`And it hath been, if thou dost hearken diligently to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, that Jehovah thy God hath made thee uppermost above all the nations of the earth,

and all these blessings have come upon thee, and overtaken thee, because thou dost hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God:

`Blessed art thou in the city, and blessed art thou in the field.

`Blessed is the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock.

`Blessed is thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

`Blessed art thou in thy coming in, and blessed art thou in thy going out.

`Jehovah giveth thine enemies, who are rising up against thee--smitten before thy face; in one way they come out unto thee, and in seven ways they flee before thee.

`Jehovah commandeth with thee the blessing in thy storehouses, and in every putting forth of thy hand, and hath blessed thee in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

`Jehovah doth establish thee to Himself for a holy people, as He hath sworn to thee, when thou keepest the commands of Jehovah thy God, and hast walked in His ways;

and all the peoples of the land have seen that the name of Jehovah is called upon thee, and they have been afraid of thee.

`And Jehovah hath made thee abundant in good, in the fruit of the womb, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers to give to thee.

`Jehovah doth open to thee his good treasure--the heavens--to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand, and thou hast lent to many nations, and thou--thou dost not borrow.

`And Jehovah hath given thee for head, and not for tail; and thou hast been only above, and art not beneath, for thou dost hearken unto the commands of Jehovah thy God, which I am commanding thee to-day, to keep and to do,

and thou dost not turn aside from all the words which I am commanding you to-day--right or left--to go after other gods, to serve them.

`And it hath been, if thou dost not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God to observe to do all His commands, and His statutes, which I am commanding thee to-day, that all these revilings have come upon thee, and overtaken thee:

`Cursed art thou in the city, and cursed art thou in the field.

`Cursed is thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

`Cursed is the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock.