7. But you have seen the lord perform all these mighty deeds with your own eyes!
8. “Therefore, be careful to obey every command I am giving you today, so you may have strength to go in and take over the land you are about to enter.
9. If you obey, you will enjoy a long life in the land the lord swore to give to your ancestors and to you, their descendants—a land flowing with milk and honey!
10. For the land you are about to enter and take over is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you planted your seed and made irrigation ditches with your foot as in a vegetable garden.
11. Rather, the land you will soon take over is a land of hills and valleys with plenty of rain—
12. a land that the lord your God cares for. He watches over it through each season of the year!
13. “If you carefully obey the commands I am giving you today, and if you love the lord your God and serve him with all your heart and soul,
14. then he will send the rains in their proper seasons—the early and late rains—so you can bring in your harvests of grain, new wine, and olive oil.