23. the Lord will dispossess all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
24. Every place where you set foot shall be yours: from the wilderness and the Lebanon, from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea, shall be your territory.
25. None shall stand up against you; the Lord, your God, will spread the fear and dread of you through any land where you set foot, as he promised you.
26. See, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:
27. a blessing for obeying the commandments of the Lord, your God, which I give you today;
28. a curse if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord, your God, but turn aside from the way I command you today, to go after other gods, whom you do not know.
29. When the Lord, your God, brings you into the land which you are to enter and possess, then on Mount Gerizim you shall pronounce the blessing, on Mount Ebal, the curse.
30. (These are beyond the Jordan, on the other side of the western road in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal beside the oak of Moreh.)
31. Now you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you. When, therefore, you take possession of it and settle there,