Deuteronomy 11:16-25 - Exhortation To Instruction And Obedience
16 Guard yourselves! Your heart could be deceived. You could turn away and serve other gods and worship them. 17 Jehovah will become angry with you. He will shut the sky and there will be no rain. Then the ground will not grow any crops. You will quickly disappear from this good land Jehovah is giving you.
18 Take these words of mine to heart and keep them in mind. Write them down, tie them around your wrist, and wear them as headbands to remind you. 19 Teach them to your children! Talk about them in your home and away. Speak of them when you lie down or get up. 20 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. 21 You and your descendants will live a long time in the land that Jehovah promised your ancestors. Your families will live there as long as the sky is above the earth. 22 Love Jehovah your God and obey all the laws and teachings I commanded you today. Hold fast to him. 23 Then Jehovah will drive out all these nations from before you. You will drive out nations greater and mightier than you. 24 Every place on which the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your border will be from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the river, the river Euphrates, as far as the western sea. 25 No man will be able to stand before you. Jehovah your God will lay the dread of you and the fear of you on all the land where you set foot. This is as he promised you.