R.C. Sproul

The fruit of your womb will be blessed.

The crops of your land, the young of your livestock, the calves of your herd, the lambs of your flock, your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.

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

And so do you see the litany?

It's just like if you keep these terms, if you obey the commandments that God is giving as part of the stipulations of this agreement,

If you obey, I'll bless you when you stand up, I'll bless you when you sit down, I'll bless you when you roll over, I'll bless you when you're silent, I'll bless you when you speak, I'll bless you when you're in the city, I'll bless you when you're in the country, I'll bless you when you're on the highway, I'll bless you when you're on the seas.

Everywhere you go, everything you do, you'll get blessed.

Then we turn the page, right?

Where we get to that scary part that says, however,

Verse 15, however, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all His commands and decrees I'm giving you today, all of these curses will come upon you and overtake you.

You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.

The fruit of your womb will be cursed.

And the crops of your lands, the calves of your herds, the lambs of your flocks, you will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

Do you see the parallel there?

An antithetical parallelism.

If you obey, you're blessed.

If you disobey, when you stand up, you'll be cursed.

When you sit down, you'll be cursed.

When you go in a city, you'll be cursed.