^{9 Ref} and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.

^{10 Ref} For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn't as the land of Egypt, from whence you came out, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;

^{11 Ref} but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, [and] drinks water of the rain of the sky,

^{12 Ref} a land which Yahweh your God cares for: the eyes of Yahweh your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.

^{13 Ref} It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

^{14 Ref} that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil.

^{15 Ref} I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, and you shall eat and be full.

^{16 Ref} Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

^{17 Ref} and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.

^{18 Ref} Therefore shall you lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.

^{19 Ref} You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

^{20 Ref} You shall write them on the door-posts of your house, and on your gates;

^{21 Ref} that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.

^{22 Ref} For if you shall diligently keep all this commandment which I command you, to do it, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave to him;

^{23 Ref} then will Yahweh drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.

^{24 Ref} Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the hinder sea shall be your border.