Deuteronomy was written as the reiteration of the covenant between God and Israel, after the forty years of pilgrimage in the desert under Moses. The investigations of George Mendenhall have shown that the divisions of the book correspond to the parts of the Hitler sovereignty pacts, since it contains the following elements: historical prologue (chapter 1-5), clauses and provisions of the treaty (chapter 5) 26), curses, blessings and ratifications (chapters 27-30), provisions for the continuation of the covenant, invocation of witnesses, custody and public reading of the covenant (chapters 31-33). [1] Chapter 28 concerns then the blessings and curses that would come upon the nation of Israel in response to their faithfulness or their failure to comply with the demands of the covenant. It is a passage that fulfills a specific function within a larger context, which is the terms of God's covenant with Israel.