1   Bvt if thou wilt heare the voice of our Lord thy God, that thou doe and keepe al his commandementes, which I command thee this day, our Lord thy God wil make thee higher then al nations, that be on the earth

2   And ^note al these blessinges shal come vpon thee, and ouertake thee: yet so if thou heare his preceptes.

3   Blessed shalt thou be in the citie, and blessed in the field.

4   Blessed shal be the fruite of thy wombe, and the fruite of thy ground, and the fruite of thy cattel, the troupes of thy heardes, & the foldes of thy sheepe.

5   Blessed shal thy barnes be, and blessed ^note thy remaines.

6   Blessed shalt thou be comming in and going out.

7   Our Lord wil geue thyne enemies, that rise vp against thee, to fal downe in thy sight: one way they shal comme against thee, and seuen wayes they shal flee from thy face.

8   Our Lord wil send forth blessing vpon thy cellars, and vpon al the workes of thy handes: and wil blesse thee in the land, that thou shalt receiue.

9   Our Lord wil rayse thee vp vnto him self to be a holie people, as he sware to thee: If thou keepe the commandmentes of our Lord thy God, and walke in his waies.

10   And al the people of the earth shal see that the name of our Lord is inuocated vpon thee, and they shal feare thee.

11   Our Lord wil make thee abound with al goodes, with the fruite of thy wombe, and the fruite of thy cattel, with the fruite of thy land, which our Lord sware to thy fathers that he would geue thee.

12   Our Lord wil open his most excellent treasure, the heauen, that it may geue rayne to thy land in due season: and wil blesse al the workes of thy handes. And thou shalt lend to many nations, and thy self shalt take lone of no man.

13   And our Lord shal make thee ^note the heade, and not thr taile: and thou shalt be alwaies aboue, and not vnder: ^note yet so, if thou wilt heare the commandmentes of our Lord thy God which I command thec rhis day, and keepe and doe them,

14   and decline not from them neither to the right hand, nor to the left, nor folow strange goddes, nor

Blessinges and curses serue them

15   But if thou wilt not heare the voice of our Lord thy God, to keepe, and doe al his commandmentes and ceremonies, which I command thee this day, ^note al these curses shal come vpon thee, and ouertake thee.

16   Cursed shalt thou be in the citie, cursed in the field.

17   Cursed shal thy barne be, and cursed thy remaines.

18   Cursed shal be the fruite of thy wombe, and the fruite of thy ground, the heardes of thy oxen, and the flockes of thy sheepe.

19   Cursed shalt thou be comming in, and cursed going out.

20   Our Lord shal send vpon thee famine & hunger, and rebuke vpon al the workes, which thou shalt doe: vntil he consume, and destroy thee quickly, for thy most wicked inuentions, wherein thou hast forsaken me.

21   Our Lord sette the pestilence vpon thee, vntil he consume thee out of the land, which thou shalt enter in to possesse.

22   Our Lord strike thee with pouertie, with the feuer and cold, with burning and heate, and with corrupt ayre and blasting, and pursew thee til thou perish.

23   Be the heauen, that is ouer thee, of brasse: and the ground, that thou treadest, of yron.

24   Our Lord geue dust for rayne vpon thy land, and ashes descend from heauen vpon thee, til thou be consumed.

25   Our Lord deliuer thee to fal downe before thyne enemies. one way goe thou forth against them, and flee seuen, and be thou dispersed through out al the kingdomes of the earth.

26   and be thy carcasse meate to al the fowles of the ayre, and beastes of the earth, and be there none to driue them away.

27   Our Lord strike thee with the boile of Ægypt, and the part of thy bodie, by the which dung is cast out, with scabbe also and itche: so that thou canst not be cured:

28   Our Lord strike thee with madnes & blindnes and furie of minde,

29   and grope thou at midday as the blinde is wont to grope in the darke, and direct not thy wayes. And at al times susteyne thou wrong, and be thou oppressed with violence, neither haue thou any to deliuer thee.

30   Take thou a wife, and an other sleepe with her. Build thou a house, and dwel not therin. Plant thou a vineyard, and take not the vintage there of.

31   Be thy oxe immolated beforre thee, and thou not eate therof. By thy asse taken away in the sight, and not restored to thee. Be thy sheepe geuen to thyne enemies, and be there none to helpe thee.

32   Be thy sonnes and thy daughters deliuered to an other people, thyne eies seing, and daseling at the sight of them al the day, and be there no strength in

Blessinges and curses thy hand.

33   The fruites of thy land, and al thy laboures let a people eate, which thou knowest not: and be thou alwaies susteyning calumnie, and oppressed al dayes,

34   and astonished at the terrour of those thinges, which thyne eies shal see.

35   Our Lord strike thee with a verie sore botche in the knees and shankes, and be thou vncurable from the sole of the foote vnto the toppe of thy head.

36   Our Lord shal bring thee, and thy King, whom thou shalt appoint ouer thee, vnto a nation, which thou and thy fathers know not: and there thou shalt serue strange goddes, wood and stone.

37   And thou shalt be destroyed for a prouerbe and fable to al peoples, vnto whom our Lord shal bring thee in.

38   Thou shalt cast much seede into the ground, and gather litle: because the locustes shal deuoure al thinges.

39   Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and digge, and the wine thou shalt not drinke, nor gather any thing therof: because it shal be wasted with wormes.

40   Thou shalt haue oliues in al thy borders, and shalt not be anointed with the oyle: because they shal droppe away, & perish.

41   Thou shalt begette sonnes and daughters, and shalt not enioy them: because they shal be Iedde into captiuitie.

42   Al thy trees and the fruites of thy ground the blasting shal consume.

43    ^noteThe stranger that liueth with thee in the Land, shal ascend ouer thee, and shal be higher: and thou shalt descend downeward, and be inferior.

44   He shal lend thee, and thou shalt not lend him. He shal be as the head, and thou shalt be the tayle.

45   And al these curses shal come vpon thee, and pursewing shal ouertake thee, til thou perish: because thou heard not the voice of our Lord thy God, nor kept his commandmentes and ceremonies which he commanded thee.

46   And they shal be in thee as signes and wonders, and in thy seede for euer:

47   because thou didst not serue our Lord thy God in ioy, and gladnes of hart, for the abundance of al thinges.

48   Thou shalt serue thine enemie, whom our Lord wil send vpon thee, in hunger, and thirst, and nakednes, and al penurie: and he shal put an yron yoke vpon thy necke, til he consume thee.

49   Our Lord wil bring vpon thee a Nation from a farre, and from the vttermost endes of the earth, in likenes of an eagle that flieth with vehemencie: whose tongue thou canst not vnderstand:

50   a verie malapert Nation, that wil attribute nothing to the ancient, nor haue pitie on the litle one,

51   and wil deuoure

Blessinges and curses the fruite of thy cattel, and the fruites of thy Land: vntil thou perish, and wil not leaue thee wheate, wine, and oile, heardes of oxen, and flockes of sheepe: vntil it destroy thee,

52   and consume thee in al thy cities, and thy strong and highe walles be destroyed, wherin that hadst confidence in al thy Land. Thou shalt be besieged within thy gates in al thy Land, which our Lord thy God wil geue thee:

53   and thou shalt eate the fruite of thy wombe, and the flesh of thy sonnes and of thy daughters, which our Lord thy God shal geue thee, in the distresse and vastation wherwith thyne enemie shal oppresse thee.

54   The man that is delicate in thee, and very riotious, shal much enuie his owne brother, and his wife, that lieth in his bosome,

55   so that he shal not geue them of the flesh of his children, which he wil eate: because he hath nothing els in the siege and penurie, wherwith thine enemies shal waste thee within al thy gates.

56   The tender and delicate woman, that could not goe vpon the ground, nor sette downe her foote for ouer much nicenes and tendernes, wil enuie her husband, that lyeth in her bosome, vpon the flesh of her sonne, and daughter,

57   and the filthines of the after birthes, that come forth from the middes of her thighes, and vpon the children that are borne the same howre. for they shal eate them secretely because of the penurie of al thinges, in the siege and vastation, wherwith thine enemie shal oppresse thee within thy gates.

58   Vnlesse thou keepe, and doe al the wordes of this law, that be written in this volume, and feare his name glorious and terrible, that is. Our Lord thy God:

59   our Lord shal increase thy plagues, and the plagues of thy seede, greate plagues and continuing, sore infirmities and perpetual.

60   and he shal turne vpon thee al the afflictions of Ægypt, which thou didst feare, and they shal cleaue to thee.

61   Moreouer also al the diseases, and plagues, that be not written in the volume of this law, our Lord wil bring vpon thee, til he consume thee:

62   and you shal remaine few in number, which before was as the starres of heauen for multitude, because thou heardst not the voice of our Lord thy God.

63   And as before our Lord reioyced vpon you, doing good to you, and multiplying you: so he shal reioyse destroying and subuerting you, so that you may be taken away from the Land, which thou shalt enter to possesse.

64   Our Lord shal disperse thee into al peoples, from the farthest

Blessinges and curses partes of the earth to the endes therof: and there thou shalt serue strange goddes, which thou art ignorant of and thy fathers, woode and stone.

65   In those nations also thou shalt not be quiet, neither shal there be resting for the steppe of thy foote. For our Lord wil geue thee a feareful hart, and daseling eies, and a soule consumed with pensifenes:

66   and thy life shal be as it were hanging before thee. Thou shalt feare night and day, and thou shalt not trust in thy life.

67   In the morning thou shalt say: Who wil graunt me euening? and at euening: Who wil grant me morning? for the fearefulnes of thy hart, wherwith thou shalt be terrified, and for those thinges, which thou shalt see with thine eies.

68   Our Lord shal bring thee againe with shippes into Ægypt by the way, wherof he said to thee that thou shouldest see it no more. There shalt thou be sould to thine enemies for bondmen and bondweomen, and no man shal bye you.

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