17For if you do so, the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and the heaven will be shut up so that there is no rain and the land will give no fruit; and in a very little time you will be cut off from the good land which the Lord is giving you.
18So keep these words deep in your heart and in your soul, and have them fixed on your hand for a sign and marked on your brow;
19Teaching them to your children, and talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up:
20Writing them on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns:
21So that your days, and the days of your children, may be long in the land which the Lord by his oath to your fathers said he would give them, like the days of the eternal heavens.
22For if you take care to keep all the orders which I give you, and to do them; loving the Lord your God and walking in all his ways and being true to him:
23Then the Lord will send these nations in flight before you, and you will take the lands of nations greater and stronger than yourselves.
