16. Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn away, and serve other gods, and worship them;
17. and the Lord’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord gives you.
18. Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
19. You shall teach them to your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
20. You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates;
21. that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.
22. For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him;
23. then the Lord will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
24. Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the western sea shall be your border.
25. No man will be able to stand before you. the Lord your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you tread on, as he has spoken to you.
26. Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:
27. the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today;
28. and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn away out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods, which you have not known.
29. It shall happen, when the Lord your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.
30. Aren’t they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah, near Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?