17. and then the Lord’s wrath be kindled against you and he shut up the heavens, that there be no rain and that the land yield not her fruit, and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord gives you.
18. Therefore, ye shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul and bind them for a sign upon your hand that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
19. And ye shall teach them to your children that ye may think of them sitting in thy house and walking by the way, lying down in bed, and rising up.
20. And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house and upon thy gates
21. that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, upon the land which the Lord swore unto your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens upon the earth.
22. For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, loving the Lord your God and walking in all his ways, to cleave unto him,
23. then the Lord will drive out all these Gentiles from before you, and ye shall possess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
24. Every place upon which the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours, from the wilderness and Lebanon; from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the western sea shall be your border.
25. No one shall be able to stand before you; for the Lord your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he has said unto you.
26. Behold, I set before you this day the blessing and the curse:
27. The blessing if ye hear the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day,
28. and the curse if ye will not hear the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
29. And it shall come to pass when the Lord thy God has brought thee in unto the land where thou goest to inherit it that thou shalt put the blessing upon Mount Gerizim and the curse upon Mount Ebal,
30. which are on the other side of the Jordan, by the way of the west, in the land of the Canaanite, who dwells in the plain over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh.
31. For ye shall pass the Jordan to go in to inherit the land which the Lord your God gives you, and ye shall possess it and dwell therein.