8. so that you would keep all his commandments, which I entrust to you this day, and so that you would be able to enter and possess the land, toward which you are advancing,
9. and so that you may live, for a long time, in the land which the Lord promised under oath to your fathers, and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.
10. For the land, which you shall enter and possess, is not like the land of Egypt, from which you departed, where, when seed has been sown, waters are brought in by irrigation, in the manner of gardens.
11. Rather, it has mountainous regions and plains, which lay waiting for rain from heaven.
12. And the Lord your God always visits it, and his eyes are upon it, from the beginning of the year, all the way to its end.
13. So then, if you obey my commandments, which I am instructing to you this day, so that you love the Lord your God, and serve him with your whole heart and your whole soul,
14. he will give to your land the early rain and the late rain, so that you may gather your grain, and your wine, and your oil,
15. and your hay from the fields in order to feed your cattle, and so that you yourselves may eat and be satisfied.
16. Be careful, lest perhaps your heart may be deceived, and you might withdraw from the Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them.
17. And the Lord, becoming angry, might close up heaven, so that the rain would not descend, nor would the earth produce her seedlings, and then you would quickly perish from the excellent land, which the Lord will give to you.
18. Place these words of mine in your hearts and minds, and hang them as a sign on your hands, and arrange them between your eyes.
19. Teach your sons to meditate on them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk along the way, and when you lie down or rise up.
20. You shall write them upon the doorposts and the gates of your house,
21. so that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your sons, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, that he would give it to them for as long as heaven is suspended above the earth.
22. For if you keep the commandments which I am entrusting to you, and if you do them, so that you love the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, clinging to him,
23. the Lord will scatter all these nations before your face, and you shall possess them, though they are greater and stronger than you.
24. Every place upon which your foot shall tread will be yours. From the desert, and from Lebanon, from the great river Euphrates, as far as the western sea, shall be your borders.