Exhortation to Instruction and Obedience

11:16 Make sure you do not turn away to serve and worship other gods!36 11:17 Then the anger of the Lord will erupt37 against you and he will close up the sky38 so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed39 from the good land that the Lord40 is about to give you. 11:18 Fix these words of mine into your mind and being,41 and tie them as a reminder on your hands and let them be symbols42 on your forehead. 11:19 Teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road,43 as you lie down, and as you get up. 11:20 Inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates 11:21 so that your days and those of your descendants may be extended in the land which the Lord promised to give to your ancestors, like the days of heaven itself.44 11:22 For if you carefully observe all of these commandments45 I am giving you46 and love the Lord your God, live according to his standards,47 and remain loyal to him, 11:23 then he48 will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you. 11:24 Every place you set your foot49 will be yours; your border will extend from the desert to Lebanon and from the River (that is, the Euphrates) as far as the Mediterranean Sea.50 11:25 Nobody will be able to resist you; the Lord your God will spread the fear and terror of you over the whole land on which you walk, just as he promised you.