8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day that ye may be strong and go in and possess the land whither ye go to possess it 9 And that ye may prolong your days in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed a land that floweth with milk and honey 10 For the land whither thou goest in to possess it is not as the land of Egypt from whence ye came out where thou sowedst thy seed and wateredst it with thy foot as a garden of herbs 11 But the land whither ye go to possess it is a land of hills and valleys and drinketh water of the rain of heaven 12 A land which the LORD thy God careth for the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year
13 And it shall come to pass if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day to love the LORD your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul 14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season the first rain and the latter rain that thou mayest gather in thy corn and thy wine and thine oil 15 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle that thou mayest eat and be full 16 Take heed to yourselves that your heart be not deceived and ye turn aside and serve other gods and worship them 17 And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you and he shut up the heaven that there be no rain and that the land yield not her fruit and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you
18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul and bind them for a sign upon your hand that they may be as frontlets between your eyes 19 And ye shall teach them your children speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house and when thou walkest by the way when thou liest down and when thou risest up 20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house and upon thy gates 21 That your days may be multiplied and the days of your children in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them as the days of heaven upon the earth 22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you to do them to love the LORD your God to walk in all his ways and to cleave unto him 23 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves 24 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours from the wilderness and Lebanon from the river the river Euphrates even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be 25 There shall no man be able to stand before you for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon as he hath said unto you
26 Behold I set before you this day a blessing and a curse 27 A blessing if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you this day 28 And a curse if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day to go after other gods which ye have not known
29 And it shall come to pass when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim and the curse upon mount Ebal 30 Are they not on the other side Jordan by the way where the sun goeth down in the land of the Canaanites which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal beside the plains of Moreh 31 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you and ye shall possess it and dwell therein 32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day
