¹³“If you carefully obey my commands I am giving you today, to love the Lord your God and worship Him with all your heart and all your soul, ¹⁴I ^rwill provide rain for your land in the proper time, the autumn and spring rains, ^s^tand you will harvest your grain, new wine, and oil. ^u¹⁵I ^vwill provide grass in your fields for your livestock. You will eat and be satisfied. ^w¹⁶Be careful ^xthat you are not enticed to turn aside, worship, and bow down to other gods. ^y¹⁷Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you. ^zHe will close the sky, and there will be no rain; ^athe land will not yield its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land ^bthe Lord is giving you.

¹⁸“Imprint these words of mine on your hearts and minds, bind them as a sign on your hands, and let them be a symbol ^con your foreheads. ^d¹⁹Teach them to your children, ^etalking about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. ²⁰Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, ^f²¹so that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be many in the land the Lord swore to give your fathers. ^g

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Footnotes

r11:14 , , read He
s11:14 Following the Hb calendar, the early rain came in September/October and the late rain in March/April.
v11:15 , , read He
c11:18 Or phylactery; Mt 23:5
d11:18 symbol between your eyes; Ex 13:16; Dt 6:8

Cross references

t11:14 Jr 5:24; Jms 5:7
u11:14 Dt 7:13; 14:23; 18:4; 2Ch 32:28; Neh 10:39; 13:5, 12; Hs 2:22; Jl 2:19, 24
w11:15 Lv 25:19; Dt 6:11; 8:10; 31:20
x11:16 Ex 34:12; Dt 4:23; 6:12; 8:11; 12:13, 19, 30; 15:9
y11:16 Dt 17:3; 29:26; 30:17; Jos 23:16; Jdg 2:17; 2Ch 7:19, 22
z11:17 Ex 22:24; Dt 7:4; 31:17; Jos 23:16
a11:17 1Kg 8:35; 2Ch 2:6; 6:26; 7:13
b11:17 Dt 8:7
e11:19 Dt 4:9–10
f11:18–20 Dt 6:6–9
g11:21 Dt 1:35