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13 “And it will happen that if you listen carefully to my commandments that I am commanding you today,[a] to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all of your heart and with all of your soul,[b] 14 then ‘I will send the rain for your land in its season, early rain and later rain, and you will gather your grain and your wine and your olive oil. 15 And I will give vegetation in your field for your livestock, and you will eat your fill.’[c] 16 Take care[d] so that your heart is not easily deceived, and you turn away, and you serve other gods, and you bow down to them. 17 And then the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you,[e] and he will shut up the heavens,[f] and there shall not be rain, and so the ground will not give its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land that Yahweh is giving to you.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 11:13 Literally “the day”
  2. Deuteronomy 11:13 Or “inner self”
  3. Deuteronomy 11:15 Literally “you will eat and you will be satisfied”
  4. Deuteronomy 11:16 Literally “Watch for yourself”
  5. Deuteronomy 11:17 Literally “the nose of Yahweh become hot against you”
  6. Deuteronomy 11:17 Or “sky”

13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love Jehovah your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14 that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy grain, and thy new wine, and thine oil. 15 And I will give grass in thy fields for thy cattle, and thou shalt eat and be full. 16 Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; 17 and the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and ye perish quickly from off the good land which Jehovah giveth you.

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