Ulangan 28:9-14

28:9 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.

[28:9]  ¹ tn Heb “the commandments of the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in the previous verse.

[28:9]  ² tn Heb “and walk in his ways” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[28:10]  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).

[28:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “will give you a lot of children.”

[28:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 28:8.

[28:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 36, 64).

[28:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “all the work of your hands.”

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

[28:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “commanding” (so NRSV); NASB “which I charge you today.”

[28:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “from all the words which I am commanding.”

[28:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “in order to serve.”