Deuteronomy 28

• 1. "If you fully obey the LORD your God by keeping all the commands I am giving you today, the LORD your God will exalt you above all the nations of the world.
• 2. You will experience all these blessings if you obey the LORD your God:
• 3. You will be blessed in your towns and in the country.
• 4. You will be blessed with many children and productive fields. You will be blessed with fertile herds and flocks.
• 5. You will be blessed with baskets overflowing with fruit, and with kneading bowls filled with bread.
• 6. You will be blessed wherever you go, both in coming and in going.
• 7. "The LORD will conquer your enemies when they attack you. They will attack you from one direction, but they will scatter from you in seven!
• 8. "The LORD will bless everything you do and will fill your storehouses with grain. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.
• 9. "If you obey the commands of the LORD your God and walk in his ways, the LORD will establish you as his holy people as he solemnly promised to do.
• 10. Then all the nations of the world will see that you are a people claimed by the LORD, and they will stand in awe of you.
• 11. "The LORD will give you an abundance of good things in the land he swore to give your ancestors--many children, numerous livestock, and abundant crops.
• 12. The LORD will send rain at the proper time from his rich treasury in the heavens to bless all the work you do. You will lend to many nations, but you will never need to borrow from them.
• 13. If you listen to these commands of the LORD your God and carefully obey them, the LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always have the upper hand.
• 14. You must not turn away from any of the commands I am giving you today to follow after other gods and worship them.
• 15. "But if you refuse to listen to the LORD your God and do not obey all the commands and laws I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overwhelm you:
• 16. You will be cursed in your towns and in the country.
• 17. You will be cursed with baskets empty of fruit, and with kneading bowls empty of bread.
• 18. You will be cursed with few children and barren fields. You will be cursed with infertile herds and flocks.
• 19. You will be cursed wherever you go, both in coming and in going.
• 20. "The LORD himself will send against you curses, confusion, and disillusionment in everything you do, until at last you are completely destroyed for doing evil and forsaking me.
• 21. The LORD will send diseases among you until none of you are left in the land you are about to enter and occupy.
• 22. The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, fever, and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew. These devastations will pursue you until you die.
• 23. The skies above will be as unyielding as bronze, and the earth beneath will be as hard as iron.
• 24. The LORD will turn your rain into sand and dust, and it will pour down from the sky until you are destroyed.
• 25. "The LORD will cause you to be defeated by your enemies. You will attack your enemies from one direction, but you will scatter from them in seven! You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
• 26. Your dead bodies will be food for the birds and wild animals, and no one will be there to chase them away.
• 27. "The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, scurvy, and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.
• 28. The LORD will strike you with madness, blindness, and panic.
• 29. You will grope around in broad daylight, just like a blind person groping in the darkness, and you will not succeed at anything you do. You will be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will come to save you.
• 30. "You will be engaged to a woman, but another man will ravish her. You will build a house, but someone else will live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will never enjoy its fruit.
• 31. Your ox will be butchered before your eyes, but you won't get a single bite of the meat. Your donkey will be driven away, never to be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will be there to help you.
• 32. You will watch as your sons and daughters are taken away as slaves. Your heart will break as you long for them, but nothing you do will help.
• 33. A foreign nation you have never heard about will eat the crops you worked so hard to grow. You will suffer under constant oppression and harsh treatment.
• 34. You will go mad because of all the tragedy around you.
• 35. The LORD will cover you from head to foot with incurable boils.
• 36. "The LORD will exile you and the king you crowned to a nation unknown to you and your ancestors. Then in exile you will worship gods of wood and stone!
• 37. You will become an object of horror, a proverb and a mockery among all the nations to which the LORD sends you.
• 38. "You will plant much but harvest little, for locusts will eat your crops.
• 39. You will plant vineyards and care for them, but you will not drink the wine or eat the grapes, for worms will destroy the vines.
• 40. You will grow olive trees throughout your land, but you will never use the olive oil, for the trees will drop the fruit before it is ripe.
• 41. You will have sons and daughters, but you will not keep them, for they will be led away into captivity.
• 42. Swarms of insects will destroy your trees and crops.
• 43. The foreigners living among you will become stronger and stronger, while you become weaker and weaker.
• 44. They will lend money to you, not you to them. They will be the head, and you will be the tail!
• 45. "If you refuse to listen to the LORD your God and to obey the commands and laws he has given you, all these curses will pursue and overtake you until you are destroyed.
• 46. These horrors will serve as a sign and warning among you and your descendants forever.
• 47. Because you have not served the LORD your God with joy and enthusiasm for the abundant benefits you have received,
• 48. you will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you. You will be left hungry, thirsty, naked, and lacking in everything. They will oppress you harshly until you are destroyed.
• 49. "The LORD will bring a distant nation against you from the end of the earth, and it will swoop down on you like an eagle. It is a nation whose language you do not understand,
• 50. a fierce and heartless nation that shows no respect for the old and no pity for the young.
• 51. Its armies will devour your livestock and crops, and you will starve to death. They will leave you no grain, new wine, olive oil, calves, or lambs, bringing about your destruction.
• 52. They will lay siege to your cities until all the fortified walls in your land--the walls you trusted to protect you--are knocked down. They will attack all the towns in the land the LORD your God has given you.
• 53. The siege will be so severe that you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you.
• 54. The most tenderhearted man among you will have no compassion for his own brother, his beloved wife, and his surviving children.
• 55. He will refuse to give them a share of the flesh he is devouring--the flesh of one of his own children--because he has nothing else to eat during the siege that your enemy will inflict on all your towns.
• 56. The most tender and delicate woman among you--so delicate she would not so much as touch her feet to the ground--will be cruel to the husband she loves and to her own son or daughter.
• 57. She will hide from them the afterbirth and the new baby she has borne, so that she herself can secretly eat them. She will have nothing else to eat during the siege and terrible distress that your enemy will inflict on all your towns.
• 58. "If you refuse to obey all the terms of this law that are written in this book, and if you do not fear the glorious and awesome name of the LORD your God,
• 59. then the LORD will overwhelm both you and your children with indescribable plagues. These plagues will be intense and without relief, making you miserable and unbearably sick.
• 60. He will bring against you all the diseases of Egypt that you feared so much, and they will claim you.
• 61. The LORD will bring against you every sickness and plague there is, even those not mentioned in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.
• 62. Though you are as numerous as the stars in the sky, few of you will be left because you would not listen to the LORD your God.
• 63. "Just as the LORD has found great pleasure in helping you to prosper and multiply, the LORD will find pleasure in destroying you, until you disappear from the land you are about to enter and occupy.
• 64. For the LORD will scatter you among all the nations from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship foreign gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods made of wood and stone!
• 65. There among those nations you will find no place of security and rest. And the LORD will cause your heart to tremble, your eyesight to fail, and your soul to despair.
• 66. Your lives will hang in doubt. You will live night and day in fear, with no reason to believe that you will see the morning light.
• 67. In the morning you will say, `If only it were night!' And in the evening you will say, `If only it were morning!' You will say this because of your terror at the awesome horrors you see around you.
• 68. Then the LORD will send you back to Egypt in ships, a journey I promised you would never again make. There you will offer to sell yourselves to your enemies as slaves, but no one will want to buy you."

Deuteronomy 29

• 1. These are the terms of the covenant the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites while they were in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Mount Sinai.
• 2. Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them, "You have seen with your own eyes everything the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh and all his servants and his whole country--
• 3. all the great tests of strength, the miraculous signs, and the amazing wonders.
• 4. But to this day the LORD has not given you minds that understand, nor eyes that see, nor ears that hear!
• 5. For forty years I led you through the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.
• 6. You had no bread or wine or other strong drink, but he gave you food so you would know that he is the LORD your God.
• 7. When we came here, King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to fight against us, but we defeated them.
• 8. We took their land and gave it to the tribes of Reuben and Gad and to the half-tribe of Manasseh as their inheritance.
• 9. "Therefore, obey the terms of this covenant so that you will prosper in everything you do.
• 10. All of you--your tribal leaders, your judges, your officers, all the men of Israel--are standing today before the LORD your God.
• 11. With you are your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners living among you who chop your wood and carry your water.
• 12. You are standing here today to enter into a covenant with the LORD your God. The LORD is making this covenant with you today, and he has sealed it with an oath.
• 13. He wants to confirm you today as his people and to confirm that he is your God, just as he promised you, and as he swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
• 14. But you are not the only ones with whom the LORD is making this covenant with its obligations.
• 15. The LORD your God is making this covenant with you who stand in his presence today and also with all future generations of Israel.
• 16. "Surely you remember how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we traveled through the lands of enemy nations as we left.
• 17. You have seen their detestable idols made of wood, stone, silver, and gold.
• 18. The LORD made this covenant with you so that no man, woman, family, or tribe among you would turn away from the LORD our God to worship these gods of other nations, and so that no root among you would bear bitter and poisonous fruit.
• 19. Let none of those who hear the warnings of this curse consider themselves immune, thinking, `I am safe, even though I am walking in my own stubborn way.' This would lead to utter ruin!
• 20. The LORD will not pardon such people. His anger and jealousy will burn against them. All the curses written in this book will come down on them, and the LORD will erase their names from under heaven.
• 21. The LORD will separate them from all the tribes of Israel, to pour out on them all the covenant curses recorded in this Book of the Law.
• 22. "Then the generations to come, both your own descendants and the foreigners who come from distant lands, will see the devastation of the land and the diseases the LORD will send against it.
• 23. They will find its soil turned into sulfur and salt, with nothing planted and nothing growing, not even a blade of grass. It will be just like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his anger.
• 24. The surrounding nations will ask, `Why has the LORD done this to his land? Why was he so angry?'
• 25. "And they will be told, `This happened because the people of the land broke the covenant they made with the LORD, the God of their ancestors, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
• 26. They turned to serve and worship other gods that were foreign to them, gods that the LORD had not designated for them.
• 27. That is why the LORD's anger burned against this land, bringing down on it all the curses recorded in this book.
• 28. In great anger and fury the LORD uprooted his people from their land and exiled them to another land, where they still live today!'
• 29. "There are secret things that belong to the LORD our God, but the revealed things belong to us and our descendants forever, so that we may obey these words of the law.

Deuteronomy 30

• 1. "Suppose all these things happen to you--the blessings and the curses I have listed--and you meditate on them as you are living among the nations to which the LORD your God has exiled you.
• 2. If at that time you return to the LORD your God, and you and your children begin wholeheartedly to obey all the commands I have given you today,
• 3. then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes. He will have mercy on you and gather you back from all the nations where he has scattered you.
• 4. Though you are at the ends of the earth, the LORD your God will go and find you and bring you back again.
• 5. He will return you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will possess that land again. He will make you even more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors!
• 6. "The LORD your God will cleanse your heart and the hearts of all your descendants so that you will love him with all your heart and soul, and so you may live!
• 7. The LORD your God will inflict all these curses on your enemies and persecutors.
• 8. Then you will again obey the LORD and keep all the commands I am giving you today.
• 9. The LORD your God will make you successful in everything you do. He will give you many children and numerous livestock, and your fields will produce abundant harvests, for the LORD will delight in being good to you as he was to your ancestors.
• 10. The LORD your God will delight in you if you obey his voice and keep the commands and laws written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and soul.
• 11. "This command I am giving you today is not too difficult for you to understand or perform.
• 12. It is not up in heaven, so distant that you must ask, `Who will go to heaven and bring it down so we can hear and obey it?'
• 13. It is not beyond the sea, so far away that you must ask, `Who will cross the sea to bring it to us so we can hear and obey it?'
• 14. The message is very close at hand; it is on your lips and in your heart so that you can obey it.
• 15. "Now listen! Today I am giving you a choice between prosperity and disaster, between life and death.
• 16. I have commanded you today to love the LORD your God and to keep his commands, laws, and regulations by walking in his ways. If you do this, you will live and become a great nation, and the LORD your God will bless you and the land you are about to enter and occupy.
• 17. But if your heart turns away and you refuse to listen, and if you are drawn away to serve and worship other gods,
• 18. then I warn you now that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live a long, good life in the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy.
• 19. "Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, that you and your descendants might live!
• 20. Choose to love the LORD your God and to obey him and commit yourself to him, for he is your life. Then you will live long in the land the LORD swore to give your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

New Living Translation: 62 of 324 days.