11. But the land into which you are about to cross to possess it, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water from the rain of heaven,
12. a land for which the Lord your God cares; the eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning even to the end of the year.
13. "It shall come about, if you listen obediently to my commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the Lord your God and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul,
14. that He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early and late rain, that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil.
15. He will give grass in your fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.
16. Beware that your hearts are not deceived, and that you do not turn away and serve other gods and worship them.
17. Or the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its fruit; and you will perish quickly from the good land which the Lord is giving you.
18. "You shall therefore impress these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontals on your forehead.
19. You shall teach them to your sons, talking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up.
20. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,
21. so that your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens remain above the earth.
22. For if you are careful to keep all this commandment which I am commanding you to do, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and hold fast to Him,