Ulangan 11:27

11:27 the blessing if you take to heart ¹  the commandments of the Lord your God that I am giving you today,

Ulangan 28:1-14

The Covenant Blessings

28:1 “If you indeed ²  obey the Lord your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving ³  you today, the Lord your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth. 28:2 All these blessings will come to you in abundance ⁴  if you obey the Lord your God: 28:3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the field. ⁵  28:4 Your children ⁶  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. ⁷  28:7 The Lord will cause your enemies who attack ⁸  you to be struck down before you; they will attack you from one direction ⁹  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 ¹⁰  is giving you. 28:9 The Lord will designate you as his holy people just as he promised you, if you keep his commandments ¹¹  and obey him. ¹²  28:10 Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you belong to the Lord, ¹³  and they will respect you. 28:11 The Lord will greatly multiply your children, ¹⁴  the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he ¹⁵  promised your ancestors ¹⁶  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; ¹⁷  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 ¹⁸  commandments which I am urging ¹⁹  you today to be careful to do. 28:14 But you must not turn away from all the commandments I am giving ²⁰  you today, to either the right or left, nor pursue other gods and worship ²¹  them.

[11:27]  ¹ tn Heb “listen to,” that is, obey.

[28:1]  ² tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “indeed.”

[28:1]  ³ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you today” (likewise in v. 15).

[28:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “come upon you and overtake you” (so NASB, NRSV); NIV “come upon you and accompany you.”

[28:3]  ⁵ tn Or “in the country” (so NAB, NIV, NLT). This expression also occurs in v. 15.

[28:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[28:6]  ⁷ sn Come in…go out. To “come in” and “go out” is a figure of speech (merism) indicating all of life and its activities.

[28:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “who rise up against” (so NIV).

[28:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “way” (also later in this verse and in v. 25).

[28:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” Because English would not typically reintroduce the proper name following a relative pronoun (“he will bless…the Lord your God is giving”), the pronoun (“he”) has been employed here in the translation.

[28:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the commandments of the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in the previous verse.

[28:9]  ¹² tn Heb “and walk in his ways” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[28:10]  ¹³ 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).

[28:11]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “will give you a lot of children.”

[28:11]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 28:8.

[28:11]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 36, 64).

[28:12]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “all the work of your hands.”

[28:13]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “the Lord your God’s.” See note on “he” in 28:8.

[28:13]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “commanding” (so NRSV); NASB “which I charge you today.”

[28:14]  ²⁰ tn Heb “from all the words which I am commanding.”

[28:14]  ²¹ tn Heb “in order to serve.”