6. The new generation is urged to keep Yahweh’s commandments, to walk in his ways and to fear (reverence) him. The formula is used frequently in Deuteronomy. It serves to introduce the argument already outlined in 6:10–15. 7–9a. A contrast is at once presented. The Lord is bringing his people to a good land of which the agricultural resources would excite the imagination of those who had been living a nomadic existence. There were natural reserves of water, brooks, springs and deep sources which