¹⁶ Take care ^(A)lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and ^(B)serve other gods and worship them; ¹⁷ then ^(C)the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and he ^(D)will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and ^(E)you will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you.

^18 (F)“You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and ^(G)you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ¹⁹ You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. ^20 (H)You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, ^21 (I)that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, ^(J)as long as the heavens are above the earth. ²² For if ^(K)you will be careful to do all this commandment that I command you to do, loving the Lord your God, walking in all his ways, and ^(L)holding fast to him, ²³ then the Lord ^(M)will drive out all these nations before you, and you will ^(N)dispossess nations greater and mightier than you. ^24 (O)Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall be ^(P)from the wilderness to^[a] the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea. ^25 (Q)No one shall be able to stand against you. The Lord your God will lay ^(R)the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread, ^(S)as he promised you.

^26 (T)“See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: ^27 (U)the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, ²⁸ and ^(V)the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, ^(W)to go after other gods that you have not known. ²⁹ And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, you shall set ^(X)the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. ³⁰ Are they not beyond the Jordan, west of the road, toward the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the ^(Y)Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside ^(Z)the oak^[b] of Moreh? ³¹ For you are ^(AA)to cross over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving you. And when you possess it and live in it, ³² you shall be careful ^(AB)to do all the statutes and the rules that I am setting before you today.