6. or what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth in the middle of the Israelite camp and swallowed them, their families, their tents, and all the property they brought with them.
7. I am speaking to you because you are the ones who saw all the great deeds of the Lord!
8. Now pay attention to all the commandments I am giving you today, so that you may be strong enough to enter and possess the land where you are headed,
9. and that you may enjoy long life in the land the Lord promised to give to your ancestors and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
10. For the land where you are headed is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, a land where you planted seed and which you irrigated by hand like a vegetable garden.
11. Instead, the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy is one of hills and valleys, a land that drinks in water from the rains,
12. a land the Lord your God looks after. He is constantly attentive to it from the beginning to the end of the year.
13. Now, if you pay close attention to my commandments that I am giving you today and love the Lord your God and serve him with all your mind and being,
14. then he promises, “I will send rain for your land in its season, the autumn and the spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine, and olive oil.
15. I will provide pasture for your livestock and you will eat your fill.”
16. Make sure you do not turn away to serve and worship other gods!
17. Then the anger of the Lord will erupt against you and he will close up the sky so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed from the good land that the Lord is about to give you.
18. Fix these words of mine into your mind and being, and tie them as a reminder on your hands and let them be symbols on your forehead.
19. Teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up.
20. Inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates