“And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:”
If you fully obey the LORD your God by carefully following all his commandments that I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth — the conditional 'if' (im) opens the blessing-curse chapter. 'Fully obey' ('shomer tamid et kol mitzvot') presupposes total commitment; blessing follows obedience.
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