Deuteronomy 11:13-28

13“If you carefully obey the commands I am giving you today, and if you love the Lord your God and serve him with all your heart and soul,

14then he will send the rains in their proper seasons—the early and late rains—so you can bring in your harvests of grain, new wine, and olive oil.

15He will give you lush pastureland for your livestock, and you yourselves will have all you want to eat.

16“But be careful. Don’t let your heart be deceived so that you turn away from the Lord and serve and worship other gods.

17If you do, the Lord’s anger will burn against you. He will shut up the sky and hold back the rain, and the ground will fail to produce its harvests. Then you will quickly die in that good land the Lord is giving you.

18“So commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these words of mine. Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders.

19Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up.

20Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,

21so that as long as the sky remains above the earth, you and your children may flourish in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors.

22“Be careful to obey all these commands I am giving you. Show love to the Lord your God by walking in his ways and holding tightly to him.

23Then the Lord will drive out all the nations ahead of you, though they are much greater and stronger than you, and you will take over their land.

24Wherever you set foot, that land will be yours. Your frontiers will stretch from the wilderness in the south to Lebanon in the north, and from the Euphrates River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.

25No one will be able to stand against you, for the Lord your God will cause the people to fear and dread you, as he promised, wherever you go in the whole land.

26“Look, today I am giving you the choice between a blessing and a curse!

27You will be blessed if you obey the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today.

28But you will be cursed if you reject the commands of the Lord your God and turn away from him and worship gods you have not known before.