All along the way I, the Lord your God, have blessed your every effort. I have been attentive to your travels through this great wasteland. These forty years I have been with you; you have lacked for nothing.'"

You will be blessed beyond all peoples; there will be no barrenness among you or your livestock.

Both you and your families must feast there before the Lord your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he has blessed you.

On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the Lord your God blesses you in all your villages. Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

When he blesses you, if the place where he chooses to locate his name is distant,

You must supply them generously from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress -- as the Lord your God has blessed you, you must give to them.

Then you are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks before the Lord your God with the voluntary offering that you will bring, in proportion to how he has blessed you.

You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the field.

Your children 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.

Your basket and your mixing bowl will be blessed.

You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

When such a person hears the words of this oath he secretly blesses himself and says, "I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit." This will destroy the watered ground with the parched.

Of Gad he said: Blessed be the one who enlarges Gad. Like a lioness he will dwell; he will tear at an arm -- indeed, a scalp.

Of Asher he said: Asher is blessed with children, may he be favored by his brothers and may he dip his foot in olive oil.