Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
16 Do not let yourselves be led away from the Lord to worship and serve other gods.
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Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them.
17 If you do, the Lord will become angry with you. He will hold back the rain, and your ground will become too dry for crops to grow. Then you will soon die there, even though it is a good land that he is giving you.
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Then the LORD’s anger will burn against you, and he will shut up the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the LORD is giving you.
18 "Remember these commands and cherish them. Tie them on your arms and wear them on your foreheads as a reminder.
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Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
19 Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you are resting and when you are working.
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Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
20 Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.
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Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates,
21 Then you and your children will live a long time in the land that the Lord your God promised to give to your ancestors. You will live there as long as there is a sky above the earth.
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so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land the LORD swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.
22 "Obey faithfully everything that I have commanded you: Love the Lord your God, do everything he commands, and be faithful to him.
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If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him and to hold fast to him—
23 Then he will drive out all those nations as you advance, and you will occupy the land belonging to nations greater and more powerful than you.
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then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and stronger than you.
24 All the ground that you march over will be yours. Your territory will extend from the desert in the south to the Lebanon Mountains in the north, and from the Euphrates River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.
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Every place where you set your foot will be yours: Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Mediterranean Sea.
25 Wherever you go in that land, the Lord your God will make the people fear you, as he has promised, and no one will be able to stop you.
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No one will be able to stand against you. The LORD your God, as he promised you, will put the terror and fear of you on the whole land, wherever you go.
26 "Today I am giving you the choice between a blessing and a curse -
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See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse—
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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