11:8 Now pay attention to all the commandments ¹  I am giving ²  you today, so that you may be strong enough to enter and possess the land where you are headed, ³  11:9 and that you may enjoy long life in the land the Lord promised to give to your ancestors ⁴  and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey. 11:10 For the land where you are headed ⁵  is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, a land where you planted seed and which you irrigated by hand ⁶  like a vegetable garden. 11:11 Instead, the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy ⁷  is one of hills and valleys, a land that drinks in water from the rains, ⁸  11:12 a land the Lord your God looks after. ⁹  He is constantly attentive to it ¹⁰  from the beginning to the end of the year. ¹¹  11:13 Now, if you pay close attention ¹²  to my commandments that I am giving you today and love ¹³  the Lord your God and serve him with all your mind and being, ¹⁴  11:14 then he promises, ¹⁵  “I will send rain for your land ¹⁶  in its season, the autumn and the spring rains, ¹⁷  so that you may gather in your grain, new wine, and olive oil. 11:15 I will provide pasture ¹⁸  for your livestock and you will eat your fill.”

11:16 Make sure you do not turn away to serve and worship other gods! ¹⁹  11:17 Then the anger of the Lord will erupt ²⁰  against you and he will close up the sky ²¹  so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed ²²  from the good land that the Lord ²³  is about to give you.

28:1 So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman! ¹