6. They did not see what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the ground opened up and swallowed them, their families, their tents, and everyone who stood with them in Israel.
7. It was you who saw all these great things the Lord has done.
8. So obey all the commands I am giving you today so that you will be strong and can go in and take the land you are going to take as your own.
9. Then you will live a long time in the land that the Lord promised to give to your ancestors and their descendants, a fertile land.
10. The land you are going to take is not like Egypt, where you were. There you had to plant your seed and water it, like a vegetable garden, by using your feet.
11. But the land that you will soon cross the Jordan River to take is a land of hills and valleys, a land that drinks rain from heaven.
12. It is a land the Lord your God cares for. His eyes are on it continually, and he watches it from the beginning of the year to the end.
13. If you carefully obey the commands I am giving you today and love the Lord your God and serve him with your whole being,
14. then he will send rain on your land at the right time, in the fall and spring, and you will be able to gather your grain, new wine, and oil.
15. He will put grass in the fields for your cattle, and you will have plenty to eat.
16. Be careful, or you will be fooled and will turn away to serve and worship other gods.
17. If you do, the Lord will become angry with you and will shut the heavens so it will not rain. Then the land will not grow crops, and you will soon die in the good land the Lord is giving you.
18. Remember my words with your whole being. Write them down and tie them to your hands as a sign; tie them on your foreheads to remind you.
19. Teach them well to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
20. Write them on your doors and gates
21. so that both you and your children will live a long time in the land the Lord promised your ancestors, as long as the skies are above the earth.
22. If you are careful to obey every command I am giving you to follow, and love the Lord your God, and do what he has told you to do, and are loyal to him,
23. then the Lord will force all those nations out of the land ahead of you, and you will take the land from nations that are bigger and stronger than you.
24. Everywhere you step will be yours. Your land will go from the desert to Lebanon and from the Euphrates River to the Mediterranean Sea.