16. But be careful lest your heart be so lured away that you serve other gods and bow down to them.
17. For then the anger of the Lord will flare up against you and he will close up the heavens, so that no rain will fall, and the soil will not yield its crops, and you will soon perish from the good land the Lord is giving you.
18. Therefore, take these words of mine into your heart and soul. Bind them on your arm as a sign, and let them be as a pendant on your forehead.
19. Teach them to your children, speaking of them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up,
20. and write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates,
21. so that, as long as the heavens are above the earth, you and your children may live on in the land which the Lord swore to your ancestors he would give them.
22. For if you are careful to observe this entire commandment I am giving you, loving the Lord, your God, following his ways exactly, and holding fast to him,
23. the Lord will dispossess all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
24. Every place where you set foot shall be yours: from the wilderness and the Lebanon, from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea, shall be your territory.
25. None shall stand up against you; the Lord, your God, will spread the fear and dread of you through any land where you set foot, as he promised you.
26. See, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:
27. a blessing for obeying the commandments of the Lord, your God, which I give you today;