In verses 11-14 the promise of prosperity is renewed.

Make you abound in prosperity: or “make you prosper very much.” Good News Translation and Contemporary English Version omit this as unnecessary, since the following clauses reveal in detail how the Israelites will prosper.

The fruit of your body … of your cattle … of your ground: as in verse 4.

The land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you: see 1.8. As always, fathers means ancestors.

Quoted with permission from Bratcher, Robert G. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on Deuteronomy. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2000. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .