¹³So if you faithfully obey^y the commands I am giving you today—to love^z the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul^a—¹⁴then I will send rain^b on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains,^c so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil. ¹⁵I will provide grass^d in the fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.^e

¹⁶Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them.^f ¹⁷Then the Lord’s anger^g will burn against you, and he will shut up^h the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce,ⁱ and you will soon perish^j from the good land the Lord is giving you. ¹⁸Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.^k ¹⁹Teach them to your children,^l talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.^m ²⁰Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates,ⁿ ²¹so that your days and the days of your children may be many^o in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.^p

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Cross references

ySee Dt 6:17
zSee Dt 10:12
a Dt 4:29; Jer 17:24
bSee Lev 26:4; Ac 14:17
c Ps 147:8; Jer 3:3; 5:24; Joel 2:23; Jas 5:7
d Ps 104:14
eSee Lev 26:5
f Dt 4:19; 8:19; 29:18; Job 31:9, 27
g Dt 6:15; 9:19
h 1 Ki 17:1; 2 Ch 6:26; 7:13
iSee Lev 26:20
j Dt 4:26; 28:12, 24
kSee Ex 13:9; Dt 6:6–8
lSee Ex 12:26; Dt 6:7; Ps 145:4; Isa 38:19; Jer 32:39
m Dt 4:9–10
n Dt 6:9
o Job 5:26; Pr 3:2; 4:10; 9:11
p Ps 72:5