17. Then the anger of Adonai will be kindled against you, so He will shut up the sky so that there will be no rain and the soil will not yield its produce. Then you will perish quickly from the good land Adonai is giving you.
18. “Therefore you are to set these words of Mine in your heart and in your soul. You are to bind them as a sign on your hand, and as frontlets between your eyes.
19. You are to teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down and when you rise up.
20. You are to write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,
21. so that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied on the land Adonai swore to give to your fathers, as long as the heavens are above the earth.
22. “For if you will diligently keep all this mitzvah that I am commanding you to do—to love Adonai your God, to walk in all His ways and to cling to Him—
23. then Adonai will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
24. Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours—from the wilderness to the Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, as far as the western sea will be your border.
25. No one will be able to stand against you—Adonai your God will put the fear and dread of you upon all the land where you tread, just as He has promised you.
26. “See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse—
27. the blessing, if you listen to the mitzvot of Adonai your God that I am commanding you today,
28. but the curse, if you do not listen to the mitzvot of Adonai your God, but turn from the way I am commanding you today, to go after other gods you have not known.