13. He will love you and bless you, and he will give you many children. He will give fertility to your land and your animals. When you arrive in the land he swore to give your ancestors, you will have large harvests of grain, new wine, and olive oil, and great herds of cattle, sheep, and goats.
14. You will be blessed above all the nations of the earth. None of your men or women will be childless, and all your livestock will bear young.
15. And the lord will protect you from all sickness. He will not let you suffer from the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but he will inflict them on all your enemies!
16. “You must destroy all the nations the lord your God hands over to you. Show them no mercy, and do not worship their gods, or they will trap you.
17. Perhaps you will think to yourselves, ‘How can we ever conquer these nations that are so much more powerful than we are?’
18. But don’t be afraid of them! Just remember what the lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all the land of Egypt.