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16 Be careful, or you will be fooled and will turn away to serve and worship 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 and will shut the heavens so it will not rain. Then the land will not grow crops, and you will soon die in the good land the Lord 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 my words with your whole being. Write them down and tie them to your hands as a sign; tie them on your foreheads to remind you.
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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 well to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
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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 your doors and gates
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Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates,
21 so that both you and your children will live a long time in the land the Lord promised your ancestors, as long as the skies are 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 If you are careful to obey every command I am giving you to follow, and love the Lord your God, and do what he has told you to do, and are loyal 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 the Lord will force all those nations out of the land ahead of you, and you will take the land from nations that are bigger and stronger 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 Everywhere you step will be yours. Your land will go from the desert to Lebanon and from the Euphrates River to the Mediterranean Sea.
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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 No one will be able to stop you. The Lord your God will do what he promised and will make the people afraid everywhere you go.
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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 See, today I am letting you choose a blessing or a curse.
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See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse—
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